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Definition of Kodiak bear

1. Noun. Brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia.

Definition of Kodiak bear

1. Noun. A large species of brown bear, ''Ursus arctos middendorffi'', found in throughout the Rocky Mountains and the northwest of North America. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kodiak Bear

Literary usage of Kodiak bear

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

1. Big Game Shooting in Alaska by Charles Robert Eustace Radclyffe (1904)
"So far there is no specimen of a true kodiak bear in the Park at Washington, although there is a magnificent specimen of the Alaska brown bear captured on ..."

2. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes by Robert Fiske Griggs (1922)
"SKINS OF A kodiak bear AND A PUMA Photograph by RF Griggs This is by no means a large skin for a kodiak bear — 9 by 9! feet. The track was only about seven ..."

3. Alaska, Our Beautiful Northland of Opportunity by Agnes Rush Burr (1919)
"The fame of the brown or kodiak bear of Alaska has spread the world over. He is the largest of all known bears and is truly a giant in size. ..."

4. The Land of Tomorrow by William B. Stephenson (1919)
"To find the really "Big Game,"—the largest the country affords, the moose, the huge and dangerous kodiak bear, the caribou and the mountain sheep, ..."

5. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"The word is synonymous with the largest land predator in the Americas, the biggest carnivore since the last ice age: the kodiak bear. ..."

6. Handbook of Alaska: Its Resources, Products, and Attractions by Adolphus Washington Greely (1909)
"The brown bears are divided by scientists into the following species: Kodiak bear, on Kodiak; the Dall and the Kidder bears, on Alaska Peninsula; ..."

7. Alaska: Its Meaning to the World, Its Resources, Its Opportunities by Charles Richard Tuttle (1914)
"This animal has a well established reputation for ferocity, second only to the kodiak bear. On the Malaspina and other large glaciers in the vicinity of Mt. ..."

8. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"Several other species occur in America, the largest of all the bears being the great brown kodiak bear, U. middendorffi, of Kodiak Island, Alaska. ..."

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