OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 7292

ursine

/ˈɜː.saɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
osuno
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 […]