What does ursine mean?
Ursine means Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears..
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/ˈɜː.saɪn/ · adjective
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears..
[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
[…] 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. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37
Use ursine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ursine means Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears..
Common synonyms include bearlike, bearly.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
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