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SILVERTIP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does silvertip mean?
• SILVERTIP (noun)
The noun SILVERTIP has 1 sense:
1. powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
Familiarity information: SILVERTIP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
grizzly; grizzly bear; silver-tip; silvertip; Ursus arctos horribilis; Ursus horribilis
Hypernyms ("silvertip" is a kind of...):
brown bear; bruin; Ursus arctos (large ferocious bear of Eurasia)
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