Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the back more or less white.
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Examples
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The wilderness is home to European bison, the endangered white-backed woodpecker and other important native biodiversity.
Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010
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The RSPB said the research, conducted to examine the effectiveness of the banning of the drug in 2006 in India followed by further measures in August 2008, showed that oriental white-backed, long-billed and slender-billed vultures were still at risk.
Banned livestock drug continues to threaten India's vultures, conservationists warn 2011
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The German phone news blog, BestBoyz via Google Translate, posted pictures of a white-backed Nexus to its Web site.
Ahoy! White Google Nexus S spotted in Germany Hayley Tsukayama 2011
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The white-backed vulture has seen its numbers drop by 99.9% since 1992, from millions to 11,000, while populations of the other two species have fallen by 97%.
Banned livestock drug continues to threaten India's vultures, conservationists warn 2011
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Her later pieces have been more ambitious in scale and production: Departures, the flying machine sold last year, was a cage held aloft by a cluster of birds that included three white-backed vultures.
Polly Morgan's wings of desire Miranda Collinge 2010
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And I passed what I took at a glance to be a large species of white-backed dragonfly hovering over some flowers that it dawned on me later could have been a ruby-throated hummingbird.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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And I passed what I took at a glance to be a large species of white-backed dragonfly hovering over some flowers that it dawned on me later could have been a ruby-throated hummingbird.
One for the birds 2008
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“Ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight …” The white-backed brush flashed through the golden hair.
Wild Orchid Cameron Dokey 2009
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The black-headed, white-backed shape with the axe-like beak bounced down another branch, and another, its eye on that tree food, that meat.
Ficlet: “Invictus” | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2007
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“Ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight …” The white-backed brush flashed through the golden hair.
Wild Orchid Cameron Dokey 2009
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