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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