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

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

You may talk about the savagery of your native bear.

From The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies Or, the Secret of the Lost Claim by Patchin, Frank Gee

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

The Australians have, properly speaking, no bears, though the animal called the native bear is looked up to by the aborigines with superstitious regard.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew