cave bear 穴熊;洞熊
- Scientists have long been arguing over the food structure of the cave bear.
科学家对洞熊的食物结构已争论了好长时间。 - The skeletons of a woolly rhinoceros and of a cave bear along with rare bird and fish fossils are also to go under the hammer during the April 16 auction in Paris.
一头毛犀牛与洞熊的骨骸、稀有鸟类与鱼类化石,也会在巴黎这场四月十六日的拍卖会上供人竞标。 - I am sure that, without modern weapons, I would make a very poor show of disputing the ownership of a cave with a bear, and in this I do not think that I stand alone.
我确信如果没有现代武器,我和一只熊对一个山洞的所有权的争夺将会很困难,并且因此使我不认为我在孤军奋战。
Cave \Cave\ (k[=a]v), n. [F. cave, L. cavus hollow, whence cavea
cavity. Cf. {Cage}.]
1. A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial;
a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
2. Any hollow place, or part; a cavity. [Obs.] ``The cave of
the ear.'' --Bacon.
3. (Eng. Politics) A coalition or group of seceders from a
political party, as from the Liberal party in England in
1866. See {Adullam}, {Cave of}, in the Dictionary of Noted
Names in Fiction.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Cave bear} (Zo["o]l.), a very large fossil bear ({Ursus
spel[ae]us}) similar to the grizzly bear, but large;
common in European caves.
{Cave dweller}, a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling
place was a cave. --Tylor.
{Cave hyena} (Zo["o]l.), a fossil hyena found abundanty in
British caves, now usually regarded as a large variety of
the living African spotted hyena.
{Cave lion} (Zo["o]l.), a fossil lion found in the caves of
Europe, believed to be a large variety of the African
lion.
{Bone cave}. See under {Bone}.