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
The old Culdee Church of Markinch has a tower of the same peculiar style, originally with a square, upright, saddle-backed roof, and crow-stepped gables.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
Staring in silence at the saddle-backed mountain, their minds traveled into the past.
From El Diablo by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
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 Bernard H. Becker
I rode to Burradorgang, a saddle-backed hill bearing 117 degrees from our camp and distant 19 miles.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
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