Meaning

6 senses
  1. A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)

  2. A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.

  3. A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.

    mule deer of western Rocky Mountains

  4. Certain fish with black tails:

    (UK)Salmo trutta

  5. (Namibia, South Africa)Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus

  6. (Jamaica)Haemulon carbonarium

Origin

Compound of black + tail.

Compound of black + tail.

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Forms

plural: blacktails
Singularblacktail
Pluralblacktails

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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