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

[ Syn: grizzly bear , silvertip , silver-tip , ursus horribilis , ursus arctos horribilis ]

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; nodded his hoary head

[ Syn: grey , gray , grey-haired , gray-haired , grey-headed , gray-headed , hoar , hoary , white-haired ]