"she-bear" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: she-bears [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sche bere}} Middle English sche bere, {{prefix|en|she|bear}} she- + bear Head templates: {{en-noun|head=she-bear}} she-bear (plural she-bears)
  1. A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear). Categories (lifeform): Female animals, Ursids Synonyms: bearess Translations (a female bear): arushë (Albanian), hartz eme (Basque), arzhez (Breton), мечка (mečka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), óssa [feminine] (Catalan), مالۆس (malos) (Central Kurdish), medvědice [feminine] (Czech), berin [feminine] (Dutch), ursino (Esperanto), emakaru (Estonian), naaraskarhu (Finnish), ourse [feminine] (French), osa [feminine] (Galician), Bärin [feminine] (German), דֻּבָּה (dubbá) [feminine] (Hebrew), birna [feminine] (Icelandic), orsa [feminine] (Italian), 雌熊 (mesukuma) (alt: めすくま) (Japanese), ہاپٕژ (hāpụċ) [feminine] (Kashmiri), кірекей (kırekei) (Kazakh), ursa [feminine] (Latin), lācene [feminine] (Latvian), binne [feminine] (Norwegian), bere (Norwegian Nynorsk), binne (Norwegian Nynorsk), hobjørn (Norwegian Nynorsk), niedźwiedzica [feminine] (Polish), ursa [feminine] (Portuguese), медве́дица (medvédica) [feminine] (Russian), medvedica [feminine] (Slovak), medvedka [feminine] (Slovene), osa [feminine] (Spanish), björnhona [common-gender] (Swedish), björninna [common-gender] (Swedish), ведме́диця (vedmédycja) [animate, feminine] (Ukrainian), gấu cái (Vietnamese), ber [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hiber [masculine] (Volapük), jiber [feminine] (Volapük), arthes [feminine] (Welsh)

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          "sense": "a female bear",
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          "sense": "a female bear",
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          "code": "is",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
      "word": "emakaru"
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      "sense": "a female bear",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "Bärin"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "דֻּבָּה"
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    {
      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "birna"
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      "word": "雌熊"
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      "word": "ہاپٕژ"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
      "word": "кірекей"
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      "code": "ckb",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
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      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "binne"
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      "sense": "a female bear",
      "word": "bere"
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    {
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      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "word": "binne"
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    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "word": "hobjørn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "niedźwiedzica"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ursa"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "medvédica",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "медве́дица"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "medvedica"
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "medvedka"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "osa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a female bear",
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      "word": "björnhona"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "björninna"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vedmédycja",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
        "animate",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ведме́диця"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "word": "gấu cái"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
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      "word": "ber"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "hiber"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jiber"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a female bear",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arthes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "she-bear"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.