Definition of Thalarctos

1. Noun. Polar bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus.

Exact synonyms: Genus Thalarctos
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Ursidae, Ursidae
Member holonyms: Ice Bear, Polar Bear, Thalarctos Maritimus, Ursus Maritimus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thalarctos

Thai numeral
Thai numerals
Thaification
Thaified
Thaifies
Thaify
Thaifying
Thailand
Thailander
Thailanders
Thailandish
Thainess
Thais
Thakurgaon District
Thal procedure
Thalarctos (current term)
Thalarctos maritimus
Thales
Thales of Miletus
Thalia
Thalictrum
Thalidone
Thamar
Thames
Thames River
Thamesian
Thameside
Thamien

Literary usage of Thalarctos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller (1912)
"181. July, 1908. TYPE LOCALITY.—Ungava Bay, Ungava, Canada. *Thalarctos ... TYPE LOCALITY.—Pack ice off coast of eastern Greenland. Thalarctos ..."

2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"254 Polar Bear (Thalarctos maritimus) . . . . 256 Florida Black Bear (orsus floridanus) .... 258 Silver Tip; variety of the Grizzly Bear (Ursus horribilis). ..."

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