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 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
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 Mitchell, Thomas
Staring in silence at the saddle-backed mountain, their minds traveled into the past.
From El Diablo by Groesbeck, Dan Sayre
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 Macdougall, W. B.
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