whale-backed

adjective

Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.

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Meanings

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

comparative more whale-backed · superlative most whale-backed

  1. Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.

    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.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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Chicago

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