ursus arctos

Questions about ursus arctos

What does ursus arctos mean?

ursus arctos means "large ferocious bear of Eurasia".

What is another word for ursus arctos?

Close synonyms include brown bear, bruin. 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 arctos a common word?

ursus arctos 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.