different between ursine vs bearly

English

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from Latin ursinus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.sa?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???sa?n/, /???s?n/
• ,

Adjective

ursine (comparative more ursine, superlative most ursine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
   • 1832, Godfrey Mundy, Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India, London: John Murray, Vol. 1, Chapter VI, p. 320, [1]

     The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 8, [2]

     […] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]

   • 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 77, [3]

     […] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.

2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
   • 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, [4]
3. (entomology, of caterpillars) Covered in stiff bristles.

Synonyms

• bearlike
• bearly

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ursine (plural ursines)

1. (zoology) A bear.

Anagrams

• insure, inures, nursie, rusine, urines

Latin

Adjective

urs?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of urs?nus

English

Etymology

From bear +? -ly. Compare bearlike.

Adjective

bearly (comparative more bearly, superlative most bearly)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears; ursine.
2. Misspelling of barely.
   • 1930, Hearst's international combined with Cosmopolitan: Volume 89:

     He was going to be a bearly bear. With a bearly mate.

   • 1955, Agnes L. McCarthy, James Kenner Agnew, Prose and poetry for appreciation:

     Past two years old Keg was now, a big and very bearly bear, and with the first tocsin of fall in the air he'd wandered off toward Sugar-loaf, answering the call of his kind.

3. Misspelling of burly.

Anagrams

• Barley, Braley, barely, barley, bleary