Grizzly

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  • adjective. Grayish or flecked with gray.
  • noun. A grizzly bear.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Somewhat gray; grayish.
  • noun. ; pl. grizzlies (-liz). 1. The grizzly bear, Ursus horribilis. See I.
  • noun. In mining: An arrangement in the sluices used in washing auriferous gravel for receiving and throwing out the large stones carried down by the current.
  • noun. In Australia, a coarse grating of timber for separating large pieces of quartz from the decomposed rock with which they are associated, in some of the forms of granitic dikes containing auriferous quartz peculiar to that region.
  • noun. A machine used for breaking coal or other material to a moderately small size.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Somewhat gray; grizzled.
  • adjective. 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.
  • noun. A grizzly bear. See under grizzly, a.
  • noun. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
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  • adjective. Grey-haired, greyish.
  • noun. A grizzly bear.
  • noun. In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
  • adjective. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
    • Word Usage
    "A mama grizzly is a conservative woman with "common sense," as Sarah Palin puts it, someone who "rises up" to protect her children when she sees them endangered by bad policies in Washington."
    cross-reference
    grizzly bear  
    Equivalent
    old  
    Form
    grizzly bear  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brown bear  bruin  ursus arctos  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sisley  drizzly  grisly  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Hudson  alligator  boar  buffaloe  caribou  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Quaker-colored  acier  argent  argentine  ashen  
    variant
    grizzlier  grizzliest  
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