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Silvertip

noun

Powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America. Synonyms: grizzly, grizzly bear, silver-tip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis.

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"Silvertip" Quotes from Famous Books

... and jingled our spurs, which were quite in the fashion. We encountered a big crowd in front of one of the markets, and found that a hunter had just come in from the mountains to the west with the carcass of the biggest bear ever brought into Rapid City. Some said it was a grizzly, and others a silvertip, and one man tried to settle the difficulty by saying that there wasn't any difference between them. But it was certainly a big bear, and filled the whole wagon-box. Ollie sidled through the crowd and asked so many questions of the man, who was named Reynolds, ...

— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth

... ordinary Silvertip, living the quiet life that all Bears prefer, minding her own business and doing her duty by her family, asking no favors of any one excepting to let her alone. It was July before she took her remarkable family down the Little Piney to the Graybull, and showed ...

— The Biography of a Grizzly • Ernest Seton-Thompson

Words linked to "Silvertip" : silver-tip, bruin, Ursus arctos horribilis, grizzly, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos, grizzly bear, brown bear