polar bear

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   white bear of Arctic regions

   Synonymsice bearUrsus MaritimusThalarctos maritimus

   Broaderbear

   Part ofThalarctos

Questions about polar bear

What does polar bear mean?

polar bear means "white bear of Arctic regions".

What is another word for polar bear?

Close synonyms include ice bear, Ursus Maritimus, Thalarctos maritimus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is polar bear a common word?

polar bear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.