Saddleback

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various birds, fishes, and other animals having saddle-shaped markings on the back.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
  • n. A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
  • n. Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on its back.
  • n. An anticlinal.
  • n. the great black-backed gull.
  • adj. saddle-backed
  • ad. saddle-backed
  • v. To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity (chiefly by Christian teenagers)
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Same as saddle-backed.
  • n. Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.
  • n.
  • n. The harp seal.
  • n. The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus).
  • n. The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hill or its summit when shaped somewhat like a saddle.
  • n. A bastard kind of oyster, unfit for food; a racoon-oyster.
  • n. The great black-backed gull: same as blackback, 1.
  • n. The harp-seal: so called from the mark on the back.
  • n. A variety of domestic geese, white, with dark feathers on the back like a saddle.
  • n. The larva of the bombycid moth Empretia stimulea: so called on account of the saddle-like markings on the back.
  • n. A coping with a double slope.
  • n. Creadion carunculatus, a passerine bird of New Zealand: so named on account of the chestnut mark on its back.
  • n. A pigeon having a broad mark across the upper part of the back, suggestive of a saddle.
  • Characterized by having a rather steep double slope. Thus, a saddleback roof on a tower is one which has two slopes with a ridge between them and which is bounded at either end by the gable wall. The terra is not often applied to the roofs of large masses of buildings.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
  • n. a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mountain pass    notch    pass   
    Cross Reference
    saddle-back roof   
    Variant
    saddle-backed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    supraorbital    Eiffel    gently-sloping    Harlow    finger-thick   
     
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