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bruin - What does it mean?

Definition of 'bruin'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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 […].
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