"blackback" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "black",
        "3": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "black + back",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From black + back.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blackbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blackback (plural blackbacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "silverback"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Zoology",
          "orig": "en:Zoology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male animals",
          "orig": "en:Male animals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              207,
              216
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1979, A. H. Harcourt, “Contrasts between Male Relationships in Wild Gorilla Groups,”, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, volume 5, number 1, page 40:",
          "text": "The author worked with two main study groups of gorilla in that region. Each contained a fully mature male (silverback), who was the obvious leader of the group, and a younger male of around 9 years of age (blackback), who had not yet assumed full adult morphology.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              108,
              117
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005, B. J. Bradley et al., “Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War,”, in PNAS, volume 102, number 26, page 9421:",
          "text": "The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee."
      ],
      "id": "en-blackback-en-noun-uQ8xNARA",
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "adolescent",
          "adolescent"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "gorilla",
          "gorilla"
        ],
        [
          "chimpanzee",
          "chimpanzee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gulls",
          "orig": "en:Gulls",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hominids",
          "orig": "en:Hominids",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The great black-backed gull."
      ],
      "id": "en-blackback-en-noun-ukgl373m",
      "links": [
        [
          "great black-backed gull",
          "great black-backed gull"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) The great black-backed gull."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blackback"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Gulls",
    "en:Hominids",
    "en:Male animals"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "black",
        "3": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "black + back",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From black + back.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blackbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blackback (plural blackbacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "silverback"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              207,
              216
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1979, A. H. Harcourt, “Contrasts between Male Relationships in Wild Gorilla Groups,”, in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, volume 5, number 1, page 40:",
          "text": "The author worked with two main study groups of gorilla in that region. Each contained a fully mature male (silverback), who was the obvious leader of the group, and a younger male of around 9 years of age (blackback), who had not yet assumed full adult morphology.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              108,
              117
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2005, B. J. Bradley et al., “Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War,”, in PNAS, volume 102, number 26, page 9421:",
          "text": "The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "adolescent",
          "adolescent"
        ],
        [
          "male",
          "male"
        ],
        [
          "gorilla",
          "gorilla"
        ],
        [
          "chimpanzee",
          "chimpanzee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The great black-backed gull."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "great black-backed gull",
          "great black-backed gull"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK) The great black-backed gull."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blackback"
}