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Definition of Honey bear
1. Noun. Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail.
Generic synonyms: Procyonid
Group relationships: Genus Potos, Potos
Definition of Honey bear
1. Noun. The sun bear (''Ursus malayanus''). ¹
2. Noun. The sloth bear (''Melursus ursinus''). ¹
3. Noun. The kinkajou. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honey Bear
Literary usage of Honey bear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"Sharp indeed are the Honey-bear's tooth-points. Mamat the First-born, ... Oho,
you have killed the Honey-bear ! N'ow take his spleen to doctor the fallen.3 ..."
2. The Honey-makers by Margaret Warner Morley (1899)
"In South America is found the honey-bear, or kinkajou, about as large as a cat,
very strong and active, and a great destroyer of wild bees, for the sake of ..."
3. Natural History of the World: With Anecdotes Illustrating the Nature, Habits edited by Alfred Henry Miles (1895)
"The polar bear is the sea bear; the brown bear, the black bear, and the grizzly
are land bears, and the Malayan bear is the honey bear. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The Malay or honey-bear is very common. The rhinoceros and the elephant both
occur in the ... Many quadrupeds, such as the honey-bear and the rhinoceros, ..."
5. Bibliotheca Wiffeniana: Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520. Their by Edward Boehmer, Benjamin Barron Wiffen (1883)
"... is found together with the honey-bear; Sieber examined ten publications: one
of the gear 1564 is without ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... groups by the absence of two upper incisors, and the very extensile character
of the lips. Of these there is but one species, the Sloth or honey bear ..."
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