silvertip

IPA: sˈɪɫvɝtɪp

noun

  • A grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis).
  • A shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus).
  • A fir tree (Abies magnifica).

silver-tip

IPA: sˈɪɫvɝtɪp

noun

  • powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western north america
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Examples of "silvertip" in Sentences

    Examples of "silver-tip" in Sentences

    • Go buy yourself a silver-tip badger hair shaving brush.
    • I began to eat of the fruit when I saw a large silver-tip crawling toward us.
    • The undisputed lord of the range was an old silver-tip grizzly, of great size and evil temper.
    • It was a reckless thing for her to do, for such a call might bring upon her a mountain lion or ever-watchful silver-tip; but Snana did not think of that.
    • I believe it is a fact that a silver-tip will dare anything except a bell or a lasso line, so that accidentally the boy had hit upon the very thing which would drive him off.
    • When I think of it, there comes to me by contrast the echo of the laugh we had, when he lay with his Rough-Riders at Montauk Point, over my one unlucky experience with a “silver-tip.
    • October moon looked down on the great Indian camp -- a hundred lodges, each as perfect in design as the tusks of a young silver-tip, and all looking ghostly white in the still of the autumn night.
    • He said this was true, but the silver-tip bear of Wyoming was a grizzly and its range extended westward to the Sierra Nevada Mountains; so it could properly be classified as a Pacific Coast variety.
    • Slowly the light spread and as slowly the shadows stole away until the October moon looked down on the great Indian camp -- a hundred lodges, each as perfect in design as the tusks of a young silver-tip, and all looking ghostly white in the still of the autumn night.

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