brown bear, bruin, Ursus arctos

large ferocious bear of Eurasia

• Syrian bear, Ursus arctos syriacus — yellowish-gray Syrian brown bear
• grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis — powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
• Alaskan brown bear, Kodiak bear, Kodiak, Ursus middendorffi, Ursus arctos middendorffi — brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia

• bear — massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

• Ursus, genus Ursus — type genus of Ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus Ursus includes all bears