whale-backed

English

Adjective

whale-backed (comparative more whale-backed, superlative most whale-backed)

  1. Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:
      In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge.
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