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ursid
This term is primarily used in zoological and paleontological contexts to categorize animals within the family Ursidae. It carries a clinical, scientific tone, distinguishing it from the common word bear, which is used in everyday conversation. When used as an adjective, it specifies biological traits or evolutionary lineages specific to these mammals.
As a noun, the word follows standard English countability rules for animals. It is not a mass noun or a collective noun, meaning it refers to individual members of the bear family and can be pluralized normally to describe multiple species or individuals.
Meanings
Examples
The giant panda is a specialized ursid with a diet consisting almost entirely of bamboo.
The museum exhibit details the evolution of the ursid lineage over millions of years.
I wonder if this ancient fossil belongs to an early ursid species.
The researcher noted several ursid characteristics in the skeletal remains.
Look at those ursid features on the creature in the painting.
The polar bear is the largest ursid in the Arctic region.
We are studying the dietary habits of various ursid mammals this semester.