ursine

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a bear

   The creature had a heavy, ursine body and moved with surprising speed.

From Latin ursinus ('of or resembling a bear'), from ursus ('bear') + the adjectival suffix -inus. English borrowed the learned adjective in the sixteenth century, alongside comparable animal terms such as feline and vulpine.

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