Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A humped upper back.
- noun A humpback whale.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crooked or hunched back.
- noun One who has a crooked back; a hunchback.
- noun A humpbacked whale of the genus Megaptera.
- noun In ichthyology, a salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, O. gorbuscha, more fully called
humpbacked salmon . Seesalmon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A crooked back; a humped back.
- noun A humpbacked person; a hunchback.
- noun Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are
Megaptera longimana of Europe, andMegaptera osphyia of America; that of the California coasts isMegaptera versabilis . - noun A small salmon (
Oncorhynchus gorbuscha ), of the northwest coast of America; thehumpbacked salmon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
humped back - noun A person with a humpback:
hunchback - noun A person who suffers from
kyphosis - noun A
humpback whale - noun A
humpback salmon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
- noun a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
- noun an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
Etymologies
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Examples
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The back of the male just behind the head abruptly rises, forming a hump—hence the alternate name humpback salmon, or “humpy.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The pink salmon, also known as the humpback salmon, is the most abundant of the salmon species.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The pink salmon, also known as the humpback salmon, is the most abundant of the salmon species.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The pink salmon, also known as the humpback salmon, is the most abundant of the salmon species.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The back of the male just behind the head abruptly rises, forming a hump—hence the alternate name humpback salmon, or “humpy.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The back of the male just behind the head abruptly rises, forming a hump—hence the alternate name humpback salmon, or “humpy.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The pink salmon, also known as the humpback salmon, is the most abundant of the salmon species.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The back of the male just behind the head abruptly rises, forming a hump—hence the alternate name humpback salmon, or “humpy.”
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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This humpback, which is a result of tuberculous inflammation of the spine, must not be confounded with the humpback caused by rickets.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876
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As a result the destroyed vertebrae sink or rather settle down and cause a curvature of the spine, in other words a humpback.
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876
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