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Fur-bearing

adjective

Of animals having fur (especially of commercial quality).

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"Fur-bearing" Quotes from Famous Books

... 3 of the act of March 2, 1889, relating to the killing of seals and other fur-bearing animals, was issued by me on the 21st day of March, and a revenue vessel was dispatched to enforce the laws and protect the interests of the United States. The establishment of a refuge station at Point Barrow, as directed by Congress, ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... it stretches northward and mounts upward until it enters the Isthmus of Panama, where it bows gracefully to either ocean, but soon resumes, under another name, its former majesty, and loses its magnificence only where the trappers chase the fur-bearing animals over the Arctic plains. Nowhere else does Nature present such a continuous and lofty chain of mountains, unbroken for eight thousand miles, save where it is rent asunder by the Magellanic Straits, ...

— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton

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