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koala bear

Koala \Ko*a"la\, n. A tailless furry marsupial ( Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, koala bear, native bear, and native sloth. The koala lives almost all of its life in trees, moves sluggishly like a sloth, and eats eucalyptus leaves almost exclusively.

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koala bear

n. (context colloquial English) A koala.

WordNet
koala bear

n. sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark [syn: koala, kangaroo bear, native bear, Phascolarctos cinereus]

Usage examples of "koala bear".

To Humans, she resembled an animal known as a koala bear - sheer coincidence, for the koala was a mammal, while the Telikans laid eggs - but with arms that hung almost to ground level when she stood up to her full 1.

Anxious to get into the house out of the vicious wind, Lysander parked the Ferrari across the drive and loaded himself up with a koala bear, a huge bottle of Giorgio, a pearl necklace and twelve bunches of pale pink roses he'd bought on the way.

Dressed from shoulders to ankles in a white fur ceremonial cape, he was the largest, most cuddly koala bear Kirk had ever seen in his life.

Jose Ramirez was a stocky Mexican-American with myopic eyes and with the sweet dreamy smile of a koala bear.

The first thing out of my stocking is a little stuffed koala bear, the kind that grips your pencil with its spring-loaded hands and feet.

She grabbed me and clung on desperately, a young koala bear stranded on its first eucalyptus tree had nothing on Marie Hopeman at that moment.

I even petted a koala bear once, though they are not members of the family.

They were both in their spotted pyjamas, clutching their companions a goggle-eyed blue snake for Lucy, and a koala bear for the redhead with a tightness that would have choked live pets.

Because there, across the lobby, in the piles of books stacked over the desk, in between Hot Men of Science and You and Your Koala Bear, sat a thin blue book covered with silver stars and moons along the back.

Just by changing her phrasing and the tone of her voice she could switch from making you think of a koala bear in tears to a wolverine on heat.

Like a playful koala bear clinging to the underside of a horizontal branch, he hung with his face turned skyward and his back parallel to the ground.