kodiak Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    Kodiak Island.
  2. noun brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia
    Ursus arctos middendorffi; Kodiak bear; Alaskan brown bear; Ursus middendorffi.

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