black bear   (TTS Sound)

The noun black bear has 2 senses

• Asiatic black bear, black bear, Ursus thibetanus, Selenarctos thibetanus -- (bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia)


• American black bear, black bear, Ursus americanus, Euarctos americanus -- (brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear)