Ursa
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- proper noun
- /ˈɜr.sə/
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Ursa
- It was a winter sky, but soon, Ursa Major would replace Orion in prominence and summer would be here.
- Ursa Major
- constellation of Ursa
And one other thing, Nageen, maybe you don't know this, but the Greek rendering of Ursa Major is a big chubby bear with a big bushy tail.
- And one other thing, Nageen, maybe you don't know this, but the Greek rendering of Ursa Major is a big chubby bear with a big bushy tail.
- The city of Nineveh was marked after Ursa Majur, the city of Asur after our tourists.
Examples
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People who have never looked up will be surprised at how Orion and Ursa Major jump out.
Academic text (2000) -
Behind him, somewhere on a spire of the temple, is Ursa Major, the Big Dipper carved into the granite.
Fiction book (1997) -
Above us, Ursa Major began its revolution through the night sky.
Fiction book (1999) -
That's Ursa Major, the Big Bear.
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Quarter to 2 a.m. There's Ursa Minor.
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The Great Bear, of course, and the little one, too, Ursa Minor, which shines brighter here than anywhere.
Fiction book (1995) -
In many ways, 1993 was the year of the galaxy M81, located in the constellation of Ursa Major.
Academic text (1994) -
The bottom panel is an image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, of stars and galaxies in the Ursa Major constellation.
Blog text (9) -
Pointing the camera towards the north-northeast, I frame the shot so that the Balanced Rock will fill the right side of the photograph and the stars of the Big Dipper (part of the constellation Ursa Major) will appear in the center.
Academic text (2011) -
You can easily spot Ursa Major in the night sky as it resembles a bear.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ursa is the Latin word for 'bear' and appears in star names like Ursa Major and Ursa Minor because people long ago thought the star patterns looked like a bear, so today Ursa still marks those constellations as 'the bear'.