brown bear

Any of several large bears of the genus Ursus, such as the grizzly and Kodiak bears, inhabiting western North America and northern Eurasia and having brown to yellowish fur. Brown bears are sometimes categorized as the single species U. arctos.

brown bear

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large ferocious brownish bear, Ursus arctos, inhabiting temperate forests of North America, Europe, and Asia See also grizzly bear, Kodiak bear

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Noun

brown bear - large ferocious bear of Eurasia

Ursus arctos, bruin

bear - massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

genus Ursus, Ursus - type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears

Syrian bear, Ursus arctos syriacus - yellowish-grey Syrian brown bear

grizzly, grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis - powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

Alaskan brown bear, Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, Ursus middendorffi, Kodiak - brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia

Translations

brown bear n → orso bruno

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Alaskan brown bear
American black bear
Barren Ground bear
Bear
black bear
bruin
Euarctos
Euarctos americanus
genus Euarctos
genus Ursus
grizzly
grizzly bear
Kodiak
Kodiak bear
silver-tip
silvertip
Syrian bear
Ursus
Ursus americanus

Namgay Doola grinned so persuasively and began to tell me about a big brown bear in a poppy field by the river.

From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

The way he'd say "I've been a regular brown bear to-day," and take himself in his arms and hug himself at the thoughts of the brute he had pretended.

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context

It is the country of the wolf and the isard, of the brown bear and the mountain-goat, a land of bare rock and of rushing water.

The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

Brown and Sharp
Brown and Sharpe gage
Brown and Sharpe gauge
Brown and Sharpe Wire Gauge
Brown and Williamson
Brown Antechinus
Brown Archival and Manuscript Collections Online
Brown Army
brown as a berry
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brown ass
Brown Association for Cooperative Housing
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Brown Attention Deficit Disorder Scale
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Brown Brothers Drilling Company
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brown bullhead
brown bullhead
brown bullheads
brown bullheads
brown butter
brown canker
Brown Capuchin
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