black-backed gull

[blak-bakt]

black-backed gull

[blak-bakt]
noun
any of several white gulls, as Larus marinus (great black-backed gull), having a black back and wings.

Origin:
1770–80
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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black-backed gull
 
n
1.  either of two common black-and-white European coastal gulls, Larus fuscus (lesser black-backed gull) and L. marinus (great black-backed gull)
2.  Also called: karoro a southern gull, larus dominicanus, with black feathers on its back

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