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Humpbacked

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Adjective

1. crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic

characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Humpbacked

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noun
1.  another word for hunchback
2. Also called: humpback whale
a large whalebone whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, closely related and similar to the rorquals but with a humped back and long flippers: family Balaenopteridae
3. 
a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, the male of which has a humped back and hooked jaws
4. Also called: humpback bridge British
a road bridge having a sharp incline and decline and usually a narrow roadway

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Humpbacked

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noun
1. 
a humped, deformed back; kyphosis
2. 
hunchback (sense 2)
3.  US
a large rorqual whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) with long flippers and a raised, rounded back
4.  US
a male pink salmon at the time it travels up rivers to spawn

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Humpbacked

see synonyms of humpbacked
n.
1. See hunchback.
2. A humped upper back.
3. A humpback whale.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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