ursine
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See also: Ursine
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Mid 16th century, from Latin ursinus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɜː.saɪn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɝːsaɪn/, /ˈɝːsɪn/
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Adjective[edit]
ursine (comparative more ursine, superlative most ursine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
- 1832, Godfrey Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, London: John Murray, Vol. 1, Chapter VI, p. 320, [1]
- The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 8, [2]
- […] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]
- 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77, [3]
- […] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
- 1832, Godfrey Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, London: John Murray, Vol. 1, Chapter VI, p. 320, [1]
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
- 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, [4]
- (entomology, of caterpillars) Covered in stiff bristles.
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Translations[edit]
of or relating to bears
Noun[edit]
ursine (plural ursines)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ursīne