blacktail

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English

Etymology

Compound of black +‎ tail.

Noun

blacktail (plural blacktails)

A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
- 1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, London: A. Islip, published 1634, page 452:
  […] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]
- 1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Melarunus”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. , 6th edition, London: J. Phillips, ; N. Rhodes, ; and J. Taylor, , →OCLC:
  Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […]
- 1912, Harry Thurston Peck, The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts, New York, N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, page 764:
  A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.
A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
Certain fish with black tails:
1. (UK) Salmo trutta
2. (South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus
3. (Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium

Derived terms

References

“black-tail, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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