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blacktails

blacktails is the plural of blacktail.

Meaning of blacktail

Noun

blacktail (plural blacktails)

  1. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
    • […] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, London: A. Islip, published 1634, page 452
  2. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
  3. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
  4. (UK) Salmo trutta
  5. (Namibia, South Africa) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
  6. (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium

Questions about blacktails

What is blacktails the plural of?
Blacktails is the plural of blacktail.

Words near blacktails in the dictionary

  1. blackstream
  2. blackstuff
  3. blacktag
  4. blacktags
  5. blacktail
  6. blacktails
  7. blackthorn
  8. blackthorn winter
  9. blackthorn winters
  10. blackthorns
  11. blackthroat

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