ursus americanus

Questions about ursus americanus

What does ursus americanus mean?

ursus americanus means "brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear".

What is another word for ursus americanus?

Close synonyms include American black bear, black bear, Euarctos americanus. 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 ursus americanus a common word?

ursus americanus 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.