Kodiak definition

kōdēak
(place) Island off the SW coast of Alas., in the Gulf of Alaska: 5,363 sq mi (13,890 sq km)
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A Kodiak bear.
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A town in Alaska: see Kodiak, Alaska.
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Noun

Singular:
kodiak
Plural:
kodiaks

Kodiak Sentence Examples

  • American naturalists regard the big brown bears of Alaska as a distinct group. They range from Sitka to the extremity of the Alaskan Peninsula, over Kodiak Island, and inland.

  • In passing from the Sitkan district westward toward Kodiak and the Aleutians the climate becomes even more equable, the temperature a little lower and the rainfall somewhat less; 1 the fogs at first less dense, especially near Cook Inlet, where the climate is extremely local, but more and more persistent along the Aleutians.

  • There are black, grizzly and polar bears, and also two exclusively Alaskan species, the Kodiak and the glacier bear.

  • The red fox is widely distributed, and the white or Arctic fox is very common along the eastern coast of Bering Sea; a blue fox, once wild, is now domesticated on Kodiak and the Aleutians, and on the southern continental coast, and a black fox, very rare, occurs in south-eastern Alaska; the silver fox is very rare.

  • The western timber limit is on Kodiak Island.

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