Ursine is an English word with synonyms like carnivore. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ursine in a sentence
Ursine meaning
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
- Covered in stiff bristles.
Synonyms of Ursine
Using Ursine
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears. | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae. | Covered in stiff bristles.
- Useful related words include: carnivore.
Context around Ursine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ursine
- In this selection, "ursine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, largest, extant, offenders, resident and inhabitants stand out and add context to how "ursine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include any extant ursine bear only and asheville s ursine inhabitants but. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ursine" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ursine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Turner knows this because the ursine offenders were caught on camera. (11 words)
Conclusions have yet to be drawn about Asheville’s ursine inhabitants, but animal cruelty concerns have clearly touched a nerve. (20 words)
The program is full of bear facts, bear necessities and the bear bones about the largest ursine resident in Northern Colorado. (21 words)
A large collection of letters from Urban IV and from Clement IV to Cardinal Simon can be found in: Edmund Martène and Ursine Durand, Thesaurus novus anecdotorum Tomus Secundus (Paris 1717), 1-636. (33 words)
Brown bears have the broadest skull of any extant ursine bear, only the afforementioned most herbivorous living bears exceed them in relative breadth of the skull. (26 words)
The program is full of bear facts, bear necessities and the bear bones about the largest ursine resident in Northern Colorado. (21 words)
Example sentences (5)
Turner knows this because the ursine offenders were caught on camera.
The program is full of bear facts, bear necessities and the bear bones about the largest ursine resident in Northern Colorado.
Conclusions have yet to be drawn about Asheville’s ursine inhabitants, but animal cruelty concerns have clearly touched a nerve.
A large collection of letters from Urban IV and from Clement IV to Cardinal Simon can be found in: Edmund Martène and Ursine Durand, Thesaurus novus anecdotorum Tomus Secundus (Paris 1717), 1-636.
Brown bears have the broadest skull of any extant ursine bear, only the afforementioned most herbivorous living bears exceed them in relative breadth of the skull.