English Explanatory Dictionary

Deninger's bear

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Ursus deningeri, an extinct species of bear, endemic to Eurasia during the Pleistocene for approximately 1.7 million years, from 1.8 to 0.1 million years ago; it is the ancestor to the later cave bear.

Word forms

Deninger's bear Deninger's bears

Etymology

Calque of taxonomic name Ursus deningeri; named in 1904 by the German paleontologist Wilhelm von Reichenau (1847–1925) after the German geologist and paleontologist Karl Deninger (1878–1917).

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