ursus arctos horribilis

1. 1.

   powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

   Synonymsgrizzlygrizzly bearsilvertipsilver-tipUrsus horribilis

   Broaderbrown bear

Questions about ursus arctos horribilis

What does ursus arctos horribilis mean?

ursus arctos horribilis means "powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America".

What is another word for ursus arctos horribilis?

Close synonyms include grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis. 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 horribilis a common word?

ursus arctos horribilis 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.