Definition of "black bear" []

• The common North American bear (Euarctos or Ursus americanus) that lives in forests, is omnivorous, and has a glossy black or dark brown coat. (noun)
• Any of several black or dark brown Asiatic bears, especially Selenarctos thibetanus, with a pointed snout, a black coat, and a white, V-shaped mark on the chest. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The box held my Betsy McCall doll the only doll I had ever owned, her little handmade rocking chair, miniature Blue Willow china, a portfolio of drawings and a paperback book about drawing animals, a straw-stuffed black bear with a red collar, a cigar box of drawing pencils, a collection of pretty canceled stamps, foreign coins stolen from my cousin David Junior and a dozen cicada shells."
• "Once Kahlan saw a black bear off in the trees, ambling along, giving them only a passing look, and once a bobcat passed near their house, sending the horses off in a panic."
• ""Everything okay?" asked Gary Pratt, prowling around the dining area like the black bear that he resembled."