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
Staring in silence at the saddle-backed mountain, their minds traveled into the past.
From El Diablo by Groesbeck, Dan Sayre
A Clatter is a peculiar Devonshire feature, composed of long loose tumbled granite blocks piled in wild disorder along the narrow summit of a saddle-backed hill.
From Philistia by Allen, Grant
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.
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
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