selenarctos

1. 1.

   Asiatic black bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus

   Synonymsgenus Selenarctos

   Broadermammal genus

   Part ofUrsidae

Other forms of selenarctos

plural

selenarctoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about selenarctos

What does selenarctos mean?

selenarctos means "Asiatic black bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus".

How many syllables are in selenarctos?

selenarctos has 4 syllables: se-le-narc-tos. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for selenarctos?

Close synonyms include genus Selenarctos. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is selenarctos a common word?

selenarctos is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.