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Webster 1913 Edition
Ursus
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Ur′sus
,Noun.
[L., a bear.]
(Zool.)
A genus of Carnivora including the common bears.
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Ursus
Ursus
See also: ursus
Translingual
Proper noun
Ursus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ursidae – the American black bear, the polar bear and the grizzly (or brown bear) are all species of the genus Ursus..
Hypernyms
- (species): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - cohort; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Ursidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, Ursus maritimus, Ursus thibetanus - species
See also
- Ursus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ursus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
ursus
ursus
See also: Ursus
Latin
Noun
ursus m (genitive ursī); second declension
- a bear
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | ursus | ursī |
genitive | ursī | ursōrum |
dative | ursō | ursīs |
accusative | ursum | ursōs |
ablative | ursō | ursīs |
vocative | urse | ursī |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ursus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ursus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ursus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- ursus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ursus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray