5 days ago · 1. of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) 2. suggesting or characteristic of a bear a lumbering ursine gait.
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Ursine means to have bear-like qualities: big, furry, muscular, and lumbering. If you're using the word to describe a big, hulking football player it might be ...
Ursine definition: of or relating to a bear or bears.. See examples of URSINE used in a sentence.
URSINE meaning: 1. relating to or like bears 2. relating to or like bears. Learn more.
Ursinae
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Ursinae is a subfamily of Ursidae named by Swainson. It was assigned to Ursidae by Bjork, Hunt, and Jin et al. Wikipedia
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: Ursinae; Fischer de Waldheim, 1817
Scientific name: Ursinae
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
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Zoology. Loosely, Ursidae, members of the bear family (conventionally designated ursids) Following the taxonomic convention, Ursinae, the subfamily.
ursine in American English (ˈɜrˌsaɪn ; ˈɜrsɪn ) adjective of, like, or characteristic of a bear; bearlike
adj. Of or characteristic of bears or a bear. [Latin ursīnus, from ursus, bear; see r̥tko- in Indo-European roots.]
Of or pertaining to a bear or bears: as, an ursine genus; related to the bear; arctoid: as, the ursine series of Carnivora; resembling a bear or what relates to ...
Ursine definition: Of or characteristic of bears or a bear.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae. (entomology, of caterpillars) Covered in stiff bristles.