polar bear

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In a message dated 8/20/2005 4:22:36 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> > Latin/scientific: Ursus maritimus
> > Lojban: { cribe la xamsi }? { cribrnanuku }?
> > { natnutku }? [I'm really bad at stage-4
> > fu'ivla]
> > 
> Taxonomy being the sort of science it is, my
> local zoo gives pbs the genus Thalarktos,
> doubling the "bear of the sea" label,
> {xasycribe}. 


The Cincinnati Zoo uses Ursus maritimus, but I've always seen it as Thalarctos maritimus.  Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives both for polar bear.

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