Dictionary

ursophile en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin ursus + -o- + -phile.

Meanings

1. One who loves bears.
   • To Diann, my alpha partner, ursophile, and tracking friend, for all her loving support and help. 2008, James C. Halfpenny, Scats and Tracks of North America: A Field Guide to the Signs of Nearly 150 Wildlife Species, Falcon Guides, →ISBN:
   • When a rogue grizzly must be exterminated by government officials, the laments of these new ursophiles continue for months, and letters to the editor run four or five to one in condemnation of the exterminators. 1969, Jack Olsen, “Prologue”, in Night of the Grizzlies, Signet, published 1971, page 23:
   • These two new books are designed to stoke the insatiable appetite of ursophiles. 1993, Canadian Geographic, page 6, column 1:
   • The anthology, suitable for the junior school library, Michael Bond’s Book of Bears, could well have been a feast for ursophiles but turns out to be only a good dinner. 1975, Education for Development Quarterly, page 52:
   • Bears are among the most popular animals, and this book of photos and essays will satisfy the most particular ursophiles. 1997, Book Review Digest, volume 93, page 1357:
   • Dedicated ursophile and BBC Wildlife staff writer James Fair believes brown bears would thrive in the valleys and beech woods of the western Cotswolds. 2006 April, BBC Wildlife, volume 24, page 36, column 3:
   • Which much loved and sadly missed English writer, actor and ursophile wrote a lovely book all about living in a small house on the same island? 1986, Punch, volume 291, page 31, column 3:
   • The Burton Collection of the Detroit Public Library, which has so many varieties, owns a copy, printed as part of a little seven-page pamphlet, Sir Bruin, issued in 1866, and ursophiles may read it there. 1977, Michigan in Books, page 15:
   • Bialosky is on the cover—to extend comfort and congratulations to ursophiles everywhere. 1984, Publishers Weekly, volume 225, page 51, column 1:
   • About six months later, Chuck Gibbs, another avid amateur photographer and ursophile, approached too close to a sow grizzly and her three cubs in Glacier National Park and was killed. 1993, Martha Hill, The Art of Photographing Nature, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN:
   • One reason: a contest that allows ursophiles to submit pictures of their own Teddies, which may be selected for inclusion in the ’86 edition. 1984, Time, volume 124, page 9:
   • This is a beary special quiz for ursophiles—all the answers contain the letters b-e-a-r. 2009, Sylvia Dolson, “Test Your Voca-bear-lary!”, in Bear-ology: Fascinating Bear Facts, Tales & Trivia, PixyJack Press, →ISBN, page 172:

Forms

Relateds

arctophile