humpbacked

See also: hunchback

English

Etymology

hump +‎ backed

Adjective

humpbacked (not comparable)

  1. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
    All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.
  2. Being a humpback bridge.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
      There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch. Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.

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humpbacked

  1. simple past tense and past participle of humpback
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