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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 under aswail.

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  • noun A nocturnal bear living in the South 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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