noun
- Bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia.
- synonyms: Asiatic black bear, Ursus thibetanus, Selenarctos thibetanus
- Brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear.
- synonyms: American black bear, Ursus americanus, Euarctos americanus
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