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Etruscan bear

Etruscan bear noun: an extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago).

etruscan bear: an extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the...
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Noun

Etruscan bear (plural Etruscan bears)

  1. An extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago).
    • 1968 [Transaction Publishers], Björn Kurtén, Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 2017, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 120,
      The first Etruscan bears were small, about the size of the modern Asiatic black bear; but they tended to increase in size and the terminal forms were as large as a brown bear.
    • About 2.5 million years ago the Auvergne bear gave rise to the Etruscan bear. Fossil remains from Spain, France, Italy, and China suggest that Etruscan bears were about the size of modern American black bears and were gradually increasing in size.[…]The Etruscan bear, about 2 million years ago...2012, Andrew E. Derocher, Polar Bears, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 36

Etruscan bear meaning in Tamil

Etruscan bear in Tamil

கரடியின் சிற்றினங்களுள் ஒன்று

Examples of Etruscan bear in a sentence

  • About 2.5 million years ago the Auvergne bear gave rise to the Etruscan bear.2012, Andrew E. Derocher, Polar Bears, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 36:
  • It^([the Auvergne bear]) appears to have given rise to the Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus), which is so similar to the Asian black bear that some researchers consider them to be one and the same.2018, Tim Flannery, Luigi Boitani, Europe: A Natural History, Text Publishing, page 140:

Forms of Etruscan bear

pluralEtruscan bears

Questions about Etruscan bear

What does Etruscan bear mean?
Etruscan bear means an extinct species of bear, †Ursus etruscus, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene (approximately 5.3 million to 100,000 years ago).
What is Etruscan bear in Tamil?
Etruscan bear in Tamil is கரடியின் சிற்றினங்களுள் ஒன்று. See Etruscan bear meaning in Tamil.
How do you use Etruscan bear in a sentence?
About 2.5 million years ago the Auvergne bear gave rise to the Etruscan bear.
What part of speech is Etruscan bear?
Etruscan bear is a noun.
What is the plural of Etruscan bear?
The plural of Etruscan bear is Etruscan bears.

Words near Etruscan bear in the dictionary

  1. Etrulia
  2. Etruria
  3. Etrurian
  4. Etrurians
  5. Etruscan
  6. Etruscan bear
  7. Etruscan bears
  8. Etruscan gold
  9. Etruscan shrew
  10. Etruscan shrews
  11. Etruscanist

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