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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek for...bear.
It's the bear bear bear!
Bonus fun fact: Arctic means "the place with bears" and Antarctic means "the place without bears"
Arctic and Antarctic don't mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that's named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.
That's what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!