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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The brown bear of northwest North America, now considered a subspecies (Ursus arctos subsp. horribilis). Also called silvertip.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) a large and ferocious bear (Ursus horribilis) of Western North America and the Rocky Mountains. It is remarkable for the great length of its claws.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

Examples

  • “The carnival; the grizzly bear ripping away some of his shoulder meat; the bloody, unconscious but still-breathing form of the little boy; Radiant, Itazura, and Psy-4 running after Killaine; then blackness; coming to sometime later, strapped to a gurney; faces hidden behind surgical masks, looking down at him.”

    Time Was

  • “Looking like a cross between a grizzly bear and a lemur, Softsmooth plopped down on the floor and began cleaning herself.”

    Flinx In Flux

  • “When it comes to hunting, I know now how grateful I am that I was included in a fall hunt for grizzly bear in 1936 on the upper end of the Crandall Creek drainage, high above the Clarke’s Fork Valley, although I was only eight and had failed to learn to read in the first grade.”

    Simon & Schuster: Hemingway on Hunting

  • “Now, where the huge grizzly bear came from that night was long a mystery, while the people of the Springs Brothers 'Circus, showing at Sausalito, searched long and vainly for "Big Ben, the Biggest Grizzly in Captivity.”

    When the World Was Young

  • “Because of Glacier's active grizzly bear population the remains were not only evidence but meat, carrion.”

    Blood Lure

  • “Instead, we had two grease-soaked pancakes with a thick slab of fatty grizzly bear meat in between, wrapped in the oilpaper that people used back then.”

    Simon & Schuster: Hemingway on Hunting

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  1. ursus
  2. grizzly
  1. silvertip
  2. Kodiak bear
  1. white
  2. cave bear
  1. Ephraim
  2. manzanita
  1. roachback
  2. silver-tip
  1. turkey-trot

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  • treeseed The Grizzly Bear started in San Francisco, along with the Bunny Hug and Texas Tommy and was also done on the Staten Island ferry boats in the 1900's. It has been said that dancers John Jarrott and Louise Gruenning introduced this dance as well as the Turkey Trot at Ray Jones Café in Chicago, IL around 1909. The Grizzly Bear was first introduced to Broadway audiences in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 by Miss Fanny Brice.

    The dance was rough and clumsy. During the dance, the dancers would yell out: "It's a Bear!" The genuine Grizzly Bear step was in correct imitation of the movements of a dancing bear, moving or dancing to the side. A very heavy step to the side with a decided bending of the upper part of the body from one side to the other, a decidedly ungraceful and undignified movement when performed as a dance.

    _Wikipedia Feb 25, 2008

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