Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, a technical term descriptive of an unbroken symmetrical anticline.
- Having the shape of a saddle; in botany, having a hollowed back and lateral lobes hanging down like the laps of a saddle, a form occurring in petals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form.
- adjective (Geol.) Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top; -- said of strata.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped in the form of a horse's saddle
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Examples
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He was mostly white but had a chestnut-brown saddle-shaped patch that reached over his back and down his sides almost to his belly.
Born to Bark Stanley Coren 2010
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Those on the smaller islands have saddle-shaped shells with a high-lipped window at the front for the head.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Those on the smaller islands have saddle-shaped shells with a high-lipped window at the front for the head.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Today, a year and a half later, Minnie has a huge saddle-shaped scar under the fur on her back, and she's terrified of tall men and large dogs.
An Ugly World 2008
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From Ferrara, sited astride the Po, he claimed to rule a saddle-shaped territory.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Particularly useful for creating complex shapes, like saddle-shaped curves (curves in 2 dimensions).
Hammers roland 2005
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We spent the night of the 26th on the island called Nkuesi, opposite a remarkable saddle-shaped mountain, and found that we were just on the 17th parallel of latitude.
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An extreme saddle-shaped shell (allowing the animal to stretch its head upward) might in some circumstances provide an adaptive advantage over a dome-shaped shell (prohibiting high reach but affording better protection), and in other circumstances the advantage might be reversed.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The shell of a tortoise from Española is saddle-shaped, with an arched front that lets the animal crane its head upward toward high vegetation.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The expression of his face had the sharpness and staidness of old age, and the fact that his nose had a saddle-shaped depression across the middle and his nostrils turned upwards gave him a sly and sarcastic look.
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