bruin
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbɹuɪn/
bruin (plural bruins)
- A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XVII:
- The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XVII:
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