Crossword clues for ursa
ursa
- Space bear
- Sky-bound bear
- Night-sky bear
- Minor in astronomy?
- It may be major or minor
- Heavenly beast
- Cosmic bear
- Bear, up there
- Bear, up high
- Bear that's looked up to
- Bear people look up to
- Bear of the night sky
- Bear in the heavens
- Bear in a constellation
- _____ Major
- ___ Minor (northern constellation)
- ___ Major (the Big Dipper)
- Word seen twice on Ptolemy's constellation list
- Up-in-the-air bear
- Third Eye Blind: "___ Major"
- Third Eye Blind 2009 album "___ Major"
- Superdrag: "Destination ___ Major"
- Starry-eyed bear?
- Stargazers' bear
- She's a bear
- She-bear, to Pliny
- She-bear, in Latin
- Part of two constellation names
- Night bear
- Minor overhead?
- Minor beginning
- Mama bear: Lat
- Mama Bear, in the Forum
- Major, or Minor
- Major with the Big Dipper
- Major thing in the heavens?
- Major starter?
- Major or Minor?
- Major or minor in astronomy?
- Major or Minor beginning
- Major opening?
- Major leader?
- Major and minor starter
- Latin bear
- It precedes Minor or Major
- Helsinki's __ Observatory
- Heavenly sight that's either Major or Minor
- Heavenly major
- Heavenly dipper
- Galactic grizzly
- Galactic bear
- First word of a constellation in the Big Dipper
- Female bear: Lat
- Either of the Dippers
- Dipper of sky
- Constellations' start
- Constellation critter
- Constellation creature
- Constellation (Major or Minor)
- Constellatio bestia
- Celestial major or minor
- Celestial creature
- Celestial animal
- Celestial "bear."
- Bearish beginning?
- Bear, to astronomers
- Bear, in two constellation names
- Bear, celestially
- Bear with star quality?
- Bear viewed with a telescope
- Bear up in the sky
- Bear up in the air
- Bear that's up at night?
- Bear that twinkles in the sky
- Bear seen on a clear night
- Bear seen by stargazers
- Bear over the air
- Bear on a sky map
- Bear of the skies
- Bear of astronomy
- Bear in the Colosseum
- Bear in space
- Bear in astronomy
- Bear in a star chart
- Bear hanging over us?
- Bear found in a high place
- Bear constellation
- Bear constellation word
- Bear at night
- Bear of the sky
- At the Drive-in "___ Minor"
- Astronomer's bear
- Astrologer's bear
- Animal in two constellations
- (In the sky) Major or Minor
- "Major" sky attraction
- "Major" or "Minor" constellation
- "Major" in astronomy?
- "Major" in astronomy
- ''Major'' constellation
- --- Major (the Big Dipper)
- --- Major
- -- Minor (Little Dipper locale)
- -- Major (Big Dipper locale)
- ____ Major (Big Dipper's constellation )
- ____ Major
- ___ Minor (the northernmost constellation)
- ___ Minor (Polaris setting)
- ___ Minor (Little Dipper's constellation)
- ___ Minor (constellation with the North Star)
- ___ Major, the Great Bear
- ___ Major (the Great Bear)
- ___ Major (the Big Dipper's constellation)
- ___ Major (Great Bear in space)
- ___ Major (constellation containing the Big Dipper)
- ___ Major (celestial bear)
- ___ Major ("Great Bear" constellation)
- ___ Major (''The Great Bear'')
- __ Minor: Little Dipper
- __ Minor: Little Bear
- __ Minor: constellation
- __ Minor, the Little Bear
- __ Minor (Little Bear)
- __ Major: Great Bear
- __ Major: Big Dipper constellation
- __ Major: Big Dipper
- Bear up?
- Name in two constellations
- Nocturnal bear?
- Constellation name
- Bear up there?
- Bear in the sky
- ___Major
- ___ Major (constellation)
- "Superman II" villainess
- ___ Minor (Polaris's constellation)
- Constellation animal
- Major in astronomy?
- ___ Major (Great Bear)
- Twinkling bear
- Constellation bear
- ___Minor
- Bear with us at night
- Celestial bear
- Polaris bear
- Heavenly bear --- Major
- "Major" animal of the sky
- Major introduction?
- Major animal?
- Star bear
- ___ Minor (constellation)
- With 60-Across, a group of stars
- "Major" name
- "Superman" villainess
- Bear that comes out at night?
- Animal in the sky
- Bear to look up to
- Fabrication
- Constellation appellation
- Astronomical bear
- Stellar bear
- With 45-Down, home of the Big Dipper
- Bear-named villainess in Superman films
- Bear in constellation names
- Major start?
- Major sight in the sky?
- Bear overhead?
- Major constellation?
- Bear aloft?
- Celestial beast
- "Major" beast
- Minor opening?
- Supervillain from Krypton
- Connect-the-dots bear?
- Major figure in space?
- Minor predecessor?
- Minor leader?
- Female bear: Lat.
- Sky Bear
- Mama bear: Lat.
- Bear on high
- Major or Minor preceder
- She-bear, to Seneca
- Major or Minor lead-in
- Major or minor constellation
- Astral Bear
- Female bear, to Fabius
- Bear in the air
- She-bear, to Brutus
- Astronomical Major or Minor
- Word with Major or Minor
- Roman bear
- With 30 Down, a night sight
- Bear outlined in lights
- Name for a bear
- Dipper's milieu, for short
- Bear up in the skies
- Roman she-bear
- Major or Minor bear
- Bear of Brutus
- Minor Bear
- Word with Minor or Major
- Dipper milieu
- Minor or Major
- Bright Bear
- Bearish group of stars
- Major or Minor predecessor
- She-bear, to Octavia
- Bearer of catuli
- Mummy bear pours away just a bit
- Old city leader in sadistic dictator given gold stars
- Stars rule in America
- From the first, usually recognisable stars, actually major or minor
- Bear trap; Russian leader in America
- Bear right entering Trump's country
- Treasurer barely sees shapes in the sky?
- Bear in the night sky
- -- Major (constellation)
- "Major" constellation
- Bear among the stars
- __ Minor (Little Dipper)
- __ Major (Big Dipper)
- ___ Major (Big Dipper's constellation)
- Sky animal
- Bear of a constellation
- -- Minor (constellation)
- ___ Major (Big Dipper locale)
- Pretoria's land: Abbr
- Bear, to Brutus
- Stargazer's bear
- Bear in two constellations
- ___ Major ("The Great Bear" constellation)
- ___ Major ("Big Bear" constellation)
- __ Major (bear constellation)
- Big Dipper bear
- Bear in the stars
- ___ Major or Minor
- Word in two constellation names
- Start of two constellation names
- Starry bear
- Minor start?
- Bear, to a skygazer
- Bear up above
- Bear seen at night
- Bear in constellations
- Air bear
- ___ Minor (Little Bear constellation)
- ___ Major (Big Dipper constellation)
- __ Major (Big Dipper's locale)
- Word before Major or Minor
- The Bear
- Starry beast
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ursa \Ur"sa\, n. [L. ursa a she-bear, also, a constellation, fem. of ursus a bear. Cf. Arctic.] (Astron.) Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below.
Ursa Major [L.], the Great Bear, one of the most conspicuous of the northern constellations. It is situated near the pole, and contains the stars which form the Dipper, or Charles's Wain, two of which are the Pointers, or stars which point towards the North Star.
Ursa Minor [L.], the Little Bear, the constellation nearest the north pole. It contains the north star, or polestar, which is situated in the extremity of the tail.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in constellation names, Old English, from Latin ursa "she-bear" (see ursine).\n
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Wikipedia
Ursa is a Latin word, meaning bear. Derivatives of this word are ursine or Ursini.
Ursa may refer to:
- Ursa (comics), a fictional villain in Superman media
- Ursa (Open Season), a fictional character in the Open Season franchise
- Ursa, a fictional character in Between the Lions
- Ursa (Finland), a Finnish astronomical association
- Ursa, Illinois, a village in the United States
- Ursa, a village in Gârcov Commune, Olt County, Romania
- Ursa Motoșeni, the former name of Motoșeni Commune, Bacău County, Romania
- Ursa (spider), a spider genus in the family Araneidae
- Ursa, a fictional creature of grim from the animated web series RWBY.
- Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation
- Ursa Minor, the Small Bear constellation
- HMS Ursa, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
- A fictional character in Avatar: The Last Airbender
- A fictional character in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
- A lubricant sold at Texaco
- A fictional character in Defense of the Ancients and Dota 2.
- A moon from the StarCraft series.
- Universal Resource Sharing Application
- Ursa, a fictional character in Highlander: The Series
- URSA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania's University Records and Service Assistant.
- URSA ( mobile networks), acronym for "Ubiquitous and Robust Access Control for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", a proposed scheme for localized cryptographic key management
- URSA ( programming language binding), an RSA public/private key OpenSSL binding for Node.js
Ursa is a fictional supervillain appearing in the DC Comics universe. An enemy of Superman, she is a conspirator and accomplice of General Zod. She first appeared in the 1978 film Superman: The Movie, where she was portrayed by actress Sarah Douglas (who reprised the role in the 1980 sequel Superman II). Almost three decades later, the character made her in-continuity comic book debut in Action Comics #845 (January 2007).
Ursa Astronomical Association is the largest astronomical association in Finland. Ursa was founded on 2 November 1921. Founding members include a renowned Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä. In 1926 Ursa established the Ursa Observatory in Kaivopuisto district of Helsinki. In 2007 the Tähtikallio Observatory & Education Center was established in Artjärvi, its current equipment includes an Astrofox 36" Folded Newtonian Open tube telescope, an Alluna 16" Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, a Meade 16" LX200GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, a Sky-Watcher ED 120mm refractor telescope fitted with a Baader AstroSolar Solar Filter and a piggybacked Coronado SolarMax 40 H-Alpha telescope. Ursa's primary functions include advancing amateur astronomy and astronomical education. They have also published a magazine Tähdet ja avaruus since 1971. Anyone interested in astronomy can join the 17,500-member organization.
Usage examples of "ursa".
Secondcousin, cruising in the neighborhood of a Cepheid variable down on his charts as 47391L, but otherwise known to the race he was shortly to discover as A Ursae Min.
It is one of the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor-more popular than Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty, better selling than The Big Bang Theory-A Personal View by Eccentrica Gallumbits (the triple breasted whore of Eroticon Six) and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's latest blockbusting title Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex But Have Been Forced To Find Out.
The smaller and less vague of them clung to the outer edge of the turquoise Xi Ursae Majoris Sector, beyond the bright beacon of Denebola, on the right of the display as viewed from where Corin sat and about a fourth of the way "north" from its equator.
Ex ipsis devota domus praestantis ab Ursa Ecclesiae, vultumque gerens demissius altum Festa Columna jocis, necnon Sabellia mitis.
Contact, via blink-stat, to be made with His Honor, the First Leader of Ursa Major Sector.
It was immediately recognizable as the heavenly constellation of Ursa Major, better known to friend and foe alike as The Plough.
The whole universe burned with pain, from the Pavo Indus to the Ursa Major Cloud of galaxies.
Then this is Ursa Major or the Big Bear pointing toward the North Star, the one star that appears never to move.
He stopped to let the students check the positions of these three important stars, and identify their constellations: Navi in Cassiopeia, Dnoces at the far tip of Ursa Major, and Regor to the south in Vela.
He looked up and was pleased to see the dented circle of the shaft door tumbling rapidly in the direction of Ursa Major, right in the middle of the star-filled circle.
Knowing not a word of their language, he used a minimum of gestures to indicate the sky, the darkness of night and the stars which formed the Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.
Saturn would naturally be assigned what you call Ursa Major, or—.
The star of Ursa Major was no longer in the ascendant, and he was bartered away, with the master of the first merchant vessel we met, for a couple of game-cocks.
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Saturn would naturally be assigned what you call Ursa Major, or-“.