A polar bear is the big white hunter that lives on the Arctic ice. A polar bear on the shore.
The fur is not white but hollow and colourless, and the skin beneath it is black. A polar bear hunts seals from the sea ice, which is why losing the ice is losing the bear.
1phrasepolar bearThe big white hunter that lives on the Arctic ice.
“A polar bear came into the settlement three times that winter.”
polar bear is an animal.
The name was coined by the naturalist Thomas Pennant in 1771.
Coined by Thomas Pennant in A Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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