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单词 black-backed
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black-backedadj.

Brit. /ˈblakbakt/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbækt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., backed adj.
Etymology: < black adj. + backed adj. With black-backed gull n. compare blackback n.
Chiefly in the names of birds and other animals: having a distinctive black back.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Salamandre d'eau, the water Salamander; black-backed, red-bellied, and full of yellow spots.
1791 T. Pennant Indian Zool. (ed. 2) 50 Anser melanotos. The Black-backed Goose.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 304 The Great Black and White Gull..our black-backed maw.., is the largest of the gull kind in our seas.
1858 U.S. War Dept. Rep. Explor. Railroad Route IX. 98 Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 368 Black-backed Eagle.
1919 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Jan. 24/4 ‘Flute-bird’ is good for the black-backed magpie.
1966 R. A. Falla et al. Field Guide Birds N.Z. 79 Australian Brown Bittern.., Brown Bittern, Black-backed Bittern, Matuku, Matuku-hurepo... Rises with dangling legs.
1986 Canberra Times 19 Feb. 21/6 In the wake of last week's column about white-backed and black-backed magpies two people have reported sightings of grey magpies.
2009 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Field Guide Songbirds S. Amer. 28/2 Black-backed Grosbeak always has a dark head.

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black-backed gull n. any of several gulls having black or dark backs; (a) (more fully great black-backed gull, greater black-backed gull) the large Larus marinus, of the North Atlantic; (b) (more fully Southern black-backed gull) the kelp gull, L. dominicanus, of the southern hemisphere; (c) (more fully lesser black-backed gull) L. fuscus, of European coasts.The lesser black-backed gull forms a ring species with the herring gull, L. argentatus.
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1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 528 Black backed Gull... Larus marinus.
1831 Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 198 The nest of the black-backed herrier and lesser blackbacked gulls very nearly resemble each other.
1837 Analyst 6 129 They are the Hawks among the feathered inhabitants of the ocean, fearlessly attacking even the Greater Blackbacked Gull.
1843 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Birds Great Brit. & Ireland (Naturalist's Libr.: Ornithol. XIV) IV. 299 Larus marinus, Linn... Great Black-backed Gull of British authors.
1873 W. L. Buller Hist. Birds N.Z. 270 Larus dominicanus. (Southern Black-backed Gull).
1904 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. Mar. 482 The Karoro, or Black-backed Gull, in the wild and dreary solitudes of the Ocean Beach.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 551 The better-known great black-backed gull, a predatory giant over two feet in length.
1973 M. Philip Caravan Caravel vii. 48 ‘What are those big ones flying around?’ asked Tessa ‘White underneath, with black wings?’ ‘They're Southern Black-backed gulls.’
1992 Stornoway Gaz. 18 Apr. 6/4 I saw my first Lesser Black-backed Gulls of the year on Loch Bacavat, Borve.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 June viii. 12/2 A brilliant sand..patrolled by wailing black-backed gulls.
black-backed jackal n. a jackal of southern and eastern Africa, Canis mesomelas, whose back and tail are black streaked with white; also called red, saddleback, or silver-backed jackal.
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1860 New Amer. Cycl. IX. 674 The black-backed jackal (C. mesomelas..), from the Cape of Good Hope, is fulvous brown above, with a large triangular patch of black broad at the shoulders and ending in a point near the tail.
1916 R. Lyddeker Wild Life of World III. iii. 73 The black-backed jackal is the only member of the group in which the front of the fore-legs is not marked with black splashes.
2002 Trav. Afr. Winter 83/2 Brown hyaena and Black-backed jackals are also regular visitors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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