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Etruscan bear

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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  • 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.

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  • French: ours étrusque — extinct species of bear
  • Italian: orso etrusco — extinct species of bear