Alaskan brown bear vs Kodiak

Alaskan brown bear and Kodiak both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Alaskan brown bear	Yes	No	No	No
Kodiak	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Alaskan brown bear and Kodiak are synonyms defined as:

Alaskan brown bear and Kodiak: brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia

Other synonyms of Alaskan brown bear include Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, Ursus middendorffi.

Alaskan brown bear (noun)	Kodiak (noun)
brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia	brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia
	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