dog-bear

English

Noun

dog-bear (plural dog-bears)

1. An extinct doglike species of bear found in Europe, Asia and North America during the Miocene epoch; a hemicyonine.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87:

     The dog-bears (hemicyonines) looked like bulky, short-tailed dogs, but were in fact related to bears, and if this is not confusing enough, there was also a group of bear-dogs (amphycyonids).