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cave bear (複数形 cave bears)

1. A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.
   • 1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:

     The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.

   • 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 7, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

     It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?

Further reading

• cave bear on Wikipedia.
• Ursus spelaeus on Wikispecies.