cave bear

English

Noun

cave bear (plural 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?

Translations

Ursus spelaeus

• Danish: hulebjørn c
• Dutch: holenbeer (nl) m, grottenbeer m
• Finnish: luolakarhu (fi)
• French: ours des cavernes (fr) m
• German: Höhlenbär (de) m
• Italian: orso delle caverne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hulebjørn m

  Nynorsk: hulebjørn m

• Russian: пеще́рный медве́дь m (peščérnyj medvédʹ)
• Spanish: oso cavernario m
• Swedish: grottbjörn (sv) c

Further reading

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