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blackrider

blackrider noun: a small variety of the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus).

Noun (1)

blackrider (plural blackriders)

  1. A small variety of the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
    • All of these high mountain lakes are now inhabited by two morphs of Arctic charr: fish of small body size (so called: 'blackriders') are highly numerous in these lakes and large body size fish (so called: 'wildcaught charrs') which are significantly less numerous.2007, D. Zick, H. Gassner, M. Rinnerthaler, P. Jäger, R.A. Patzner, “Application of population size structure indices to Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.) in Alpine lakes in Austria”, in Ecology...
    • The lake is inhabited by two morphs of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus); small-bodied “blackriders” are very numerous, whereas larger “wild-caught charrs” are less frequent2012, Liisa Nevalainen, Tomi P. Luoto, “Faunal (Chironomidae, Cladocera) responses to post-Little Ice Age climate warming in the high Austrian Alps”, in Journal of Paleolimnology, volume 48

Noun (2)

blackrider (plural blackriders)

  1. A student who rides in a blackride.
    • To rile their professors, South Carolina students staged 'blackrides,' when they blackened their faces, stole the horses of faculty, and galloped about campus while holding flaming torches. After exhausting a horse and drawing a cheering crowd, a 'blackrider' dismounted and slipped into the midst...2019, Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson's Education, page 97

Forms of blackrider

pluralblackriders

Origin of blackrider

From black + rider.

From blackride + -er.

Questions about blackrider

What does blackrider mean?
Blackrider means a small variety of the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus).
What part of speech is blackrider?
Blackrider is a noun.
What is the plural of blackrider?
The plural of blackrider is blackriders.

Words near blackrider in the dictionary

  1. blackpolls
  2. Blackpool
  3. Blackpudlian
  4. Blackpudlians
  5. blackride
  6. blackrider
  7. blackriders
  8. blackrides
  9. Blackrock
  10. Blackrod
  11. blackroot

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