'humpbacked
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| —n | |
| 1. | another word for hunchback |
| 2. | Also called: humpback whale a large whalebone whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, closely related and similar to the rorquals but with a humped back and long flippers: family Balaenopteridae |
| 3. | a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, the male of which has a humped back and hooked jaws |
| 4. | (Brit) Also called: humpback bridge a road bridge having a sharp incline and decline and usually a narrow roadway |
| [C17: alteration of earlier crumpbacked, perhaps influenced by | |
| 'humpbacked | |
| —adj | |
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