From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
grizzly
adj : showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
"nodded his hoary head" [syn: gray, grey,
gray-haired, grey-haired, gray-headed,
grey-headed, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
n : powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western
North America [syn: grizzly bear, silvertip,
silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, {Ursus arctos
horribilis}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grizzly \Griz"zly\, a.
Somewhat gray; grizzled.
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Old squirrels that turn grizzly. --Bacon.
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Grizzly bear (Zool.), 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grizzly \Griz"zly\, n.; pl. Grizzlies.
1. (Zool.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.
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2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw
out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.]
--Raymond.
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