Meaning of blacktail | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
4. Certain fish with black tails:
   UK
5. Salmo trutta
   UK
6. Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
   Namibia, South-Africa
7. Haemulon carbonarium
   Jamaica

Examples

“[…] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]”

“Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […]”

“A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.”

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