native bear

British  

noun

1. an Australian name for koala

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Example Sentences

The native bear is in evidence throughout Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Victoria.

From Time Magazine Archive

A wee little native bear, barely eight inches long,—a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad flapped ears, sits on a tree within reach.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry

The native bear, as a marsupial sloth is termed, is the most innocent-looking of animals, and the most harmless, feeding on the leaves of the gum.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard

Doctor Tjon Akieh, who came here from Surinam, had some amusing monkeys, a native bear, tamer than most cats, and a very quiet deer.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl

Laura had rescued it and reared it; it followed her like a dog; and she was only less devoted to it than she had been to a native bear which died under her hands.

From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel