saddle-backed

American  

[sad-l-bakt] / ˈsæd lˌbækt /

adjective

1. having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.

2. having a saddlelike marking on the back, as certain birds.

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saddle-backed British  

adjective

1. having the back curved in shape or concave like a saddle

2. having a saddleback

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Etymology

Origin of saddle-backed

First recorded in 1535–45

Example Sentences

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saddle-backed

In a Dec. 4 , Eric Michael Johnson wrote that saddle-backed tamarins are socially monogamous.

From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2013

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

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 William Cornwallis Harris

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 Clarence Hamilton Poe

Contriving to twist myself a little, I saw that the band of the Doones were mounting a saddle-backed bridge in a deep wooded glen, with a roaring water under them.

From Slain By The Doones by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore