silvertip vs bruin

silvertip and bruin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
silvertip	Yes	No	No	No
bruin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bruin is a hypernym of silvertip; that is, bruin is a word with a broader meaning than silvertip:

silvertip: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
bruin: large ferocious bear of Eurasia

Other hypernyms of silvertip include brown bear, Ursus arctos.

silvertip (noun)	bruin (noun)
powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America	large ferocious bear of Eurasia
	a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'