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
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
We arrived before sunset at the village of Adeláda, which occupies the summit of a steep saddle-backed hill, and is under the control of Ayto Nigdoo.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
Staring in silence at the saddle-backed mountain, their minds traveled into the past.
From El Diablo by Groesbeck, Dan Sayre
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
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