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Definition of Genus Ursus
1. Noun. Type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Ursidae, Ursidae
Member holonyms: Brown Bear, Bruin, Ursus Arctos
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ursus
Literary usage of Genus Ursus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley (1825)
"ARTICLE X. OM the genus Ursus of Cuvier, with its Divisions into Subgénero.
By John Edward Gray, Esq. FGS. (To the Editors of the Annals of Philosophy. ..."
2. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1842)
"genus Ursus. Linneus. Head large; body and limbs large and powerful. Covered with
long shaggy hair. Grinders varying in number, the four last large and ..."
3. Knowledge and Reality: A Criticism of Mr. F. H. Bradley's "Principles of Logic" by Bernard Bosanquet (1885)
"It might not be true to say " The genus Ursus ... but we could hardly be prevented,
even if it were reckoned an equivocation, from saying " The genus Ursus ..."
4. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"The dental formula of the genus Ursus is— ' fv « n;' 14 * \{ - 42 <fie- 293' ...
It would seem in the genus Ursus as if the preponderating size of the large ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"The dental formula of the genus Ursus is It ia essentially the same both in number
and kind of teeth as in the genus Canis, but the individual or specific ..."
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