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blackback
n. 1 (context zoology English) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee. 2 (context UK English) the great black-backed gull.
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Blackback (disambiguation)
A blackback is a sexually mature male gorilla of up to 11 years of age.
Blackback may also refer to:
- Alosa kessleri, a herring of the Clupeidae family
- Great blackback, a very large gull which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic
- Lesser blackback, a large gull which breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe
- Kelp gull, a large gull that breeds throughout the Southern Hemisphere
Usage examples of "blackback".
Macurdy wondered aloud whether there'd been any discussion among the blackbacks over who had been into the goods.
Nothing registered, except that it was finished-the Voitar and the blackbacks dead.
Herring gulls and blackbacks soared overhead calling, and sunlight was beginning to pierce the ragged clouds.