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from The Century Dictionary.
- One of three superfamilies of the fissiped or terrestrial carnivorous mammals (the others being Æluroidea and Cynoidea), including the bears and their relatives, as distinguished from the feline and canine members of the Ferœ fissipedia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.
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