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saddle-backed

[ sad-l-bakt ]

adjective

  1. having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
  2. having a saddlelike marking on the back, as certain birds.


saddle-backed

adjective

  1. having the back curved in shape or concave like a saddle
  2. having a saddleback
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of saddle-backed1

First recorded in 1535–45
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Example Sentences

"The photos from the team clearly show a moderately saddle-backed, old female about half to two-thirds the size of the known male. Pending genetic confirmation, this is almost undoubtedly the lost Fernandina Giant Tortoise."

Sensing potential clients, a stallholder pulls a tiny pygmy marmoset and a saddle-backed tamarin from her bun as they emit high-pitched shrieks.

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

From Slate

It has a singular appearance: it might be likened in its form to a hippopotamus standing on the flat margin of an African lake, its breast and mouth touching the water, and all its body belly-deep in the mud; it is, in fact, a hill or a promontory united to the mainland by a strip of low flat land—a huge, oblong, saddle-backed hill projected into the sea towards Wales.

"There are bandicoots and bandicoots," pursued Mr. Pottle; "the Peragale, or rabbit bandicoot; the Nasuta, or long-nosed bandicoot; the Mysouros, or saddle-backed bandicoot; the Chœropus, or pig-footed bandicoot; and——" "Speaking of antelopes——" Mr. Deeley interrupted loudly.

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