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单词 bear dog
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bear dogn.

Brit. /ˈbɛː dɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈbɛr ˌdɔɡ/, /ˈbɛr ˌdɑɡ/
Forms: see bear n.1 and dog n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bear n.1, dog n.1
Etymology: < bear n.1 + dog n.1In sense 3 after scientific Latin Arctocyon, genus name, literally ‘bear-dog’ (H. M. D. de Blainville, 1841).
1. A dog of a large breed resembling a bear. Obsolete.With quot. 1732 cf. Newfoundland n. 3.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > miscellaneous types of
bear dog1581
xoloitzcuintli1780
St. Bernard1839
Maori dog1840
Leonberg1907
Rottweiler1909
Dobermann pinscher1917
corgi1926
Bernese mountain dog1935
kuvasz1935
Bernese1936
Entlebucher1937
Munsterlander1945
spinone1945
Swedish Vallhund.1947
labradoodle1955
xolo1956
cockapoo1960
maltipoo1968
peekapoo1968
Rottie1968
dorgi1975
Shar-Pei1976
bandog1984
goldendoodle2001
1581 S. Batman in tr. K. Lykosthenes Doome 13 This straunge beast is reported to haue bene bred in England, of a maruellous fiercenesse,..whom I may best tearme a Beare dog, foreshewing both shapes which commonly come to passe.
1732 Gentleman Farrier App. 99 The Bear Dog is of a very large size, commonly sluggish in his Looks, but he's very watchful; he comes from Newfoundland, his Business is to guard a Court or House, and has a thundring Voice when Strangers come near him, and does well to turn a Water Wheel.
1885 Harper's Young People 8 Dec. 98/3 At Spanish Town we saw a ‘bear dog’; it is a native of Alaska, and resembles a small bear.
2. A dog used for hunting or baiting bears and other animals. In later use spec. (in full Karelian bear dog): a spitz type dog of a breed developed in Finland for hunting bears and other large game, having a black and white coat with a curled tail. Cf. bear hound n. at bear n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals
bear dog1616
wolf-dog1652
coney dog1681
foumart-dog?1748
bird dog1755
boar-dog1792
bear hound1807
wolf-hound1823
toller1831
coon-dog1833
pig-dog1845
rat terrier1851
ratter1858
rabbiter1859
squirrel-dog1860
badgerer1876
boar-hound1884
turkey-dog1895
coon hound1920
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. i. in Wks. I. 552 I'll ha' you chain'd vp, with your bul-dogs, and beare-dogges, if you be not ciuill the sooner. I'll send you to kennell, i'faith. You were best baite me with your bull, beare, and horse?
1846 H. J. Peck in P. Hawker & W. T. Porter Instr. Young Sportsmen (Amer. ed.) 305 The full-bred bull-dog makes but a very indifferent bear dog.
2012 Ursus 23 220/1 The Picchio Wildlife Research Center..has been commissioned..to conserve and manage Asiatic black bears..using trained Karelian bear dogs.
3. Palaeontology. Any of various extinct mammals combining attributes of dogs and bears; esp. a carnivore of the family Amphicyonidae, widespread during the Miocene epoch.Bear dogs are distantly related to dogs and bears, but are not considered to be their direct evolutionary ancestors.
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1878 St. James's Mag. Sept. 767 The dog-bears and bear-dogs.., or by whatever names the common ancestor is known, gradually split off in two directions, till some became the bears and others the dogs of the present day.
1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 188 Notable among Miocene fossil genera is Amphicyon, whose remains are found in North America as well as in Europe, varying from the size of a kit fox to that of a grizzly, and it may be termed a ‘bear-dog’.
2013 S. Montgomery Tapir Scientist i. 9 The tapir..has remained unchanged since the Miocene, more than twelve million years ago—a time when mastodons, saber-toothed cats, and bear dogs roamed North America.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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