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Ursus

noun

type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears

• Syn: ↑genus Ursus

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ursidae, ↑family Ursidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑brown bear, ↑bruin, ↑Ursus arctos

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\\ˈərsəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, bear — more at arctic

: a genus (the type of the family Ursidae) of bears held by some authorities to include all recent bears except the sloth bear and restricted by others to the European brown bear and immediately related forms or subdivided in various ways — compare selenarctos, thalarctos

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Urˈsus noun

The bear genus

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Main Entry: ↑Ursa

Useful english dictionary. 2012.