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honey-bear
1. A small quadruped, somewhat larger than a polecat, the potto or kinkajou, Cercoleptes caudivolvulus, a native of tropical America.
1838Swainson Anim. in Menag. 77 Baron Humboldt affirms that it [the Potto] makes use of its long tongue to suck honey, and hence is a great destroyer of the nests of bees: this habit has procured for it..the name of the Honey Bear. 1883A. Brassey The Trades 452 From Colon one of the officers had brought back a honey-bear—an intelligent brute, about the size of a mongoose.
2. The sloth-bear, Melursus labiatus, of India.
1875Encycl. Brit. III. 462/1 There is but one species, the Sloth or Honey Bear..It inhabits the mountainous regions of India. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life iii. 44 The great features of the Oriental region are, the long-armed apes, the orang-utans, the tiger, the sun-bears and honey-bears. |