saddle-backed
Americanadjective
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having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
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having a saddlelike marking on the back, as certain birds.
adjective
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having the back curved in shape or concave like a saddle
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having a saddleback
Etymology
Origin of saddle-backed
First recorded in 1535–45
Example Sentences
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In a Dec. 4 , Eric Michael Johnson wrote that saddle-backed tamarins are socially monogamous.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2013
It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
He is either a preliminary rough sketch accidentally turned loose on the world, or else he got warped somehow in the drying process--great, quiet, shaggy, awkward, serene, goose-necked, saddle-backed Old Slow and Steady!
From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton
It was a saddle-backed mountain, and they were at the outer edge of the eastern hump.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
Down the slope of the immense saddle-backed range lie fields of the brightest green, divided by banks and hedges delightful to look at after the grim stone walls of Mayo, Galway, and Clare.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.
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