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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bear (Melursus ursinus) of India and Sri Lanka, having a long snout, a long sticky tongue, and dark shaggy hair and feeding on plants and insects, especially termites and the larvae of bees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The aswail. See
Melursus , and cut underaswail .
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- noun A nocturnal
bear living in theSouth Asia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common coarse-haired long-snouted bear of south-central Asia
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