BROWN BEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown bear mean? 

• BROWN BEAR (noun)
  The noun BROWN BEAR has 1 sense:

1. large ferocious bear of Eurasia

  Familiarity information: BROWN BEAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN BEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large ferocious bear of Eurasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brown bear; bruin; Ursus arctos

Hypernyms ("brown bear" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brown bear"):

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; Kodiak bear; Ursus arctos middendorffi; Ursus middendorffi (brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia)

Holonyms ("brown bear" is a member of...):

genus Ursus; Ursus (type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears)

 Context examples 

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He rubbed his eyes savagely to clear his vision, and beheld, not a horse, but a great brown bear.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)