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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox';

2. large ferocious bear of Eurasia;
[syn: brown bear, bruin, Ursus arctos]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

bruin \bru"in\, n. [D. bruin brown. In the epic poem of "Reynard the Fox" the bear is so called from his color. See Brown, a.] A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bruin n 1: a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' 2: large ferocious bear of Eurasia [syn: brown bear, bruin, Ursus arctos]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

BRUIN Brown University Interactive Language. A simple interactive language with PL/I-like syntax, for IBM 360. ["Meeting the Computational Requirements of the University, Brown University Interactive Language", R.G. Munck, Proc 24th ACM Conf, 1969]. (1995-02-14)