humpless
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a word derived from
hump.
humpnouna rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
Example Sentences
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Among the ungulates of native origin was the long-necked, high-standing macrauchenia, shaped something like a huge, humpless camel or giraffe, and with a short proboscis.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt
The taurine or Ox group is divided into the Zebus, or humped domestic cattle; Taurus, humpless cattle with cylindrical horns; and Gavæus, humpless cattle with flattened horns.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale