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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A mature male gorilla having silvery white hair across the back.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The knot or Canute, a sandpiper. See cut under Tringa.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology A mature male of the several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
  2. n. informal, by extension A dominant older human male.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The knot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back

Etymologies

  1. silver + back. (Wiktionary)

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