silver-tip

1. 1.

   powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

   Synonymsgrizzlygrizzly bearsilvertipUrsus horribilisUrsus arctos horribilis

   Broaderbrown bear

Questions about silver-tip

What does silver-tip mean?

silver-tip means "powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America".

How many syllables are in silver-tip?

silver-tip has 3 syllables: sil-ver--tip. The stress falls on "sil".

What is another word for silver-tip?

Close synonyms include grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silver-tip a common word?

silver-tip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.