short-faced bear

English

Noun

short-faced bear (plural short-faced bears)

1. An in the genus †Arctodus of extinct bears from Pleistocene North America,.
   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12:

     The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear.