bear otter

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bear otter (plural bear otters)

  1. An extinct genus of otters, Enhydriodon, that lived in the late Miocene and early Pleistocene.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 25:
      Searching for hard-shelled prey – molluscs, crabs and the like – there are two species of bear otter in Kanapoi.