ursine

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.

   “The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.”

   “[…] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]”

   “[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.”

2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.

   “2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37”

3. Covered in stiff bristles.

noun

1. A bear.

name

1. A census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.