silverback
(noun) an adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back
Source: WordNet® 3.1
silverback (plural silverbacks)
(mammalogy) A mature male of the several species of chimpanzees and gorillas, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
(informal, by extension) A dominant older human male.
Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma.
Source: Wiktionary
Sil"ver*back`, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The knot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
