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kodiak
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kodiak has 2 senses
- kodiak(n = noun.object) kodiak island - an island off southern Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska; site of the first European settlement in the area which was founded by the Russians in 1784; Array is a part of ak, alaska, last frontier
- kodiak(n = noun.animal) alaskan brown bear, kodiak bear, ursus arctos middendorffi, ursus middendorffi - brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia; Array is a kind of brown bear, bruin, ursus arctos
is a kind of island
OXFORD DICTIONARY
kodiak, n. (in full Kodiak bear) a large Alaskan brown bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi.
Etymology
Kodiak Island, Alaska
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