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ursine
of or resembling a bear
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Questions about “ursine”
Ursine (adjective) means of or resembling a bear
Here is ursine used in an example sentence: "The wrestler's ursine bulk made him seem immovable in the ring."
Common synonyms for ursine include bearlike, lumbering.
Antonyms of ursine include feline, slight.
Ursine is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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