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comparative more ursine, superlative most ursine
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears. quotations examples
The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
1832, Godfrey Mundy, chapter VI, in Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, volume 1, London: John Murray, page 320
[…] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae. examples
(entomology, of caterpillars) Covered in stiff bristles.
plural ursines
(zoology) A bear.