Adolescent vs Blackback - What's the difference?
adolescent | blackback |
Characteristic]] of, or relating to, or [[undergo, undergoing adolescence; immature.
* Cowper
(zoology) An adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.
* 1979 , A. H. Harcourt, "Contrasts between Male Relationships in Wild Gorilla Groups," Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , vol. 5, no. 1, p. 40:
* 2005 , B. J. Bradley et al.'', "Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War," ''PNAS , vol. 102, no. 26, p. 9421:
(UK) the great black-backed gull.
As nouns the difference between adolescent and blackback
is that adolescent is a teenager; a juvenile after puberty while blackback is (zoology) an adolescent male gorilla or chimpanzee.As an adjective adolescent
is characteristic]] of, or relating to, or [[undergo|undergoing adolescence; immature.adolescent
English
Adjective
(-)- Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.