Humpback

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See hunchback.
  • n. A humped upper back.
  • n. A humpback whale.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A humped back
  • n. A person with a humpback: hunchback
  • n. A person who suffers from kyphosis
  • n. A humpback whale
  • n. A humpback salmon.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A crooked back; a humped back.
  • n. A humpbacked person; a hunchback.
  • n.
  • n. Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and Megaptera osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is Megaptera versabilis.
  • n. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America; the humpbacked salmon.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A crooked or hunched back.
  • n. One who has a crooked back; a hunchback.
  • n. A humpbacked whale of the genus Megaptera.
  • n. In ichthyology, a salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, O. gorbuscha, more fully called humpbacked salmon. See salmon.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
  • n. a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
  • n. an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    baleen whale    whalebone whale    cripple    spinal curvature   
    Cross Reference
    humpback butter-fish    kyphosis   
    Variant
    humpbacked salmon   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hunchback   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blueback    minke    beluga    humpy    grampus   
     
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