saddleback

plural saddlebacks

1. A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
2. A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
3. architectureA coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
4. Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
5. A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
6. geographyAn anticline.
7. UKA great black-backed gull.
8. New ZealandA passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.

   The young bird had the plumage of the saddleback, not the even chestnut of the jackbird, although its plumage was rather duller than that of the adult.

   1959, Robert Adams Wilson, Bird Islands of New Zealand, page 67

9. A variety of domestic goose.
10. A raccoon oyster.
11. A harp seal.
12. A larva of the bombycid moth.

1. not comparablesaddle-backed

1. not comparablesaddle-backed

present singular third person saddlebacks · participle present saddlebacking · participle past saddlebacked · past saddlebacked

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