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Back's grayling
[< Sir George Back, British explorer, 1796-1878]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a silver-gray freshwater fish, Thymallus arcticus, of the trout family, found in northern waters.
See: Arctic grayling
Quotations
1820
There are two other species of Coregoni in Winter Lake, Back's grayling and the round fish. . . .
1947
The Arctic grayling, or Back's Grayling, is to be found in all waters tributary to the Mackenzie.