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Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine.
ursine (comparative more ursine, superlative most ursine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
1832, Godfrey Mundy, chapter VI, in Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India[1], volume 1, London: John Murray, page 320:
The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd[2], London: Constable & Co.:
[…] 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. 77, [3]
- […] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
- 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, [4]
- (entomology, of caterpillars) Covered in stiff bristles.
of or relating to bears
- Arabic: دُبِّيّ (ar) (dubbiyy)
- Belarusian: мядзве́джы (mjadzvjédžy)
- Bulgarian: ме́чешки (bg) (méčeški)
- Chinese:
- Czech: medvědí (cs)
- Dutch: beer- (nl)
- Esperanto: ursa (eo)
- Finnish: karhu-
- French: ursin (fr)
- German: Bären- (de)
- Greek: αρκουδιάρικος (arkoudiárikos)
- Ido: ursala
- Italian: orsino
- Japanese: クマの (ja) (kuma no)
- Korean: 곰의 (ko) (gom-ui)
- Latin: ursīnus
- Macedonian: мечкин (mečkin)
- Old English: biren
- Polish: niedźwiedzi (pl)
- Russian: медве́жий (ru) (medvéžij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: medvedí
- Slovene: medvedji
- Spanish: osuno (es)
- Ukrainian: ведме́жий (vedméžyj), ведме́дячий (uk) (vedmédjačyj)
- Volapük: berik (vo)
ursine (plural ursines)
ursīne