Crossword-Solution: URSIDAE
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| URSIDAE | anagram | RESIDUA |
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| Genus of plantigrades. | 1 answer |
| The bears, zoologically speaking. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with URSIDAE (4)
This animal was placed by Linnaeus among the _Ursidae_, and is classed by some with the _Melididae_, but its dentition is more that of the Martens, which occupy the next group.
BEAR, properly the name of the European brown bear (_Ursus arctus_), but extended to include all the members of the _Ursidae_, the typical family of Arctoid carnivora, distinguished by their massive bodies, short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
Thus there are no representatives of the group (as might be expected) in the Australian region; they are completely absent from Madagascar; while the true Bears (family Ursidae) are totally absent from Ethiopian Africa, and are only represented by a single species, _Ursus ornatus_, in the Neotropical region.
The most primitive group is perhaps that of the true Bears, family Ursidae; for in them the molars are two above and three below, and have thus not become diminished in number as in some of the other members of the order.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–1968).