bear otter

English

Noun

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.