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nounan extinct bear, Ursus spelaeus, that lived in caves in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch. Words nearby cave bearcave, cave art, caveat, caveat emptor, caveator, cave bear, cave canem, cave cricket, cave dweller, cavefish, cave-in Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cave bearI have been unable to ascertain in which of his publications he describes and names the cave-bear. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution|Alpheus Spring Packard One of the first things he did was to kill a cave-bear and take the trophies. The Later Cave-Men|Katharine Elizabeth Dopp Under the skin of the civilised being there lurks almost always the ancestor, the savage contemporary of the cave-bear. Social Life in the Insect World|J. H. Fabre Bones and teeth of the cave-bear were soon found, and several other extinct quadrupeds which Schmerling has enumerated. The Geological Evidence of The Antiquity of Man|Charles Lyell
They served against the cave-bear, cave-hyena, cave-lion, and would be of great service in the ages yet to come. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man|J. P. MacLean
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