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"The European glutton and American wolverine (_gulo_), the badgers of both continents, and of Asia (_meles_), the raccoon (_procyon_), the
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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"... in astronomy, a bright fixed star of the second magnitude, in the body of the constellation Canis Minor, or the Little Dog...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 356
October 12, 2008