单词 | muskwa |
释义 | muskwan. Chiefly Canadian. The American black bear, Ursus americanus. Also muskwa bear. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > black bear Cuff1811 cinnamon bear1823 Cuffee1824 cinnamon1855 muskwa1861 1743 J. Isham in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1949) 12 20 A Black Bear Mus qua.] 1861 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 397 The grisley Bear and the Musquaw or Black Bear. 1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. xl/1 The Black Bear is called in some quarters the Musquaw, a term probably derived from the Aborigines. 1902 Pearson's Mag. June 665 The American Musquaw bear. 1951 V. Angier At Home in Woods 129 ‘Easy,’ Brad cautioned, suddenly alert. ‘That sounds like a young mus-kwa.’ 1956 H. S. M. Kemp Northern Trader 181 Muskwa was standing there, waiting for me. And I smacked right into him! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1861 |
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