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Kodiak   /kˈoʊdiˌæk/   Listen
Kodiak

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Kodiak Island.
2.
Brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia.  Synonyms: Alaskan brown bear, Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, Ursus middendorffi.





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"Kodiak" Quotes from Famous Books



... put up with it if he had to. But, given his choice, he would have much preferred to be afraid of something a little less unpredictable, something he knew a little more about. Something comfortable, like, say, a Bengal tiger or a Kodiak bear. ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett
... formerly amongst the Mordvin, in central Russia. A case is mentioned of a girl who was sent from home for a time, and on her return given to her brother as his wife.[1685] Langsdorff[1686] reported of the Aleuts on the island of Kodiak, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, that parents and children, brothers ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner


Words linked to "Kodiak" :   Ursus middendorffi, Last Frontier, Alaska, island, AK, bruin, Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, brown bear, Ursus arctos


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