BRUIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bruin mean? 

• BRUIN (noun)
  The noun BRUIN has 2 senses:

1. a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic 'Reynard the Fox'

2. large ferocious bear of Eurasia

  Familiarity information: BRUIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic 'Reynard the Fox'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bruin" is a kind of...):

bear (massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large ferocious bear of Eurasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brown bear; bruin; Ursus arctos

Hypernyms ("bruin" is a kind of...):

bear (massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bruin"):

Syrian bear; Ursus arctos syriacus (yellowish-grey Syrian brown bear)

grizzly; grizzly bear; silver-tip; silvertip; Ursus arctos horribilis; Ursus horribilis (powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America)

Alaskan brown bear; Kodiak; Kodiak bear; Ursus arctos middendorffi; Ursus middendorffi (brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia)

Holonyms ("bruin" is a member of...):

genus Ursus; Ursus (type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears)