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Humpback   /hˈəmpbˌæk/   Listen
Humpback

noun
1.
An abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column.  Synonyms: hunchback, kyphosis.
2.
A person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine.  Synonyms: crookback, hunchback.
3.
Large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives.  Synonyms: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae.





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"Humpback" Quotes from Famous Books



... very old-looking boy, Tom thought. His spine had been deformed through an accident in infancy, and to Tom he was simply a humpback. He had a vague notion that the deformity of Wakem's son had some relation to the lawyer's rascality, of which he had so often heard his ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
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... opposite the mouth of the Zungwe, where we had left the Zambesi on our way up. Mpande was sorry that he had no canoes of his own to sell, but he would lend us two. He gave us cooked pumpkins and a water-melon. His servant had lateral curvature of the spine. We have often seen cases of humpback, but this was the only case of this kind of curvature we had met with. Mpande accompanied us himself in his own vessel, till we had an opportunity of purchasing a fine large canoe elsewhere. We paid what was considered a ...
— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone
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... numerous baleen whales belonging to the three species unique to these southernmost seas: the bowhead whale (or "right whale," according to the English), which has no dorsal fin; the humpback whale from the genus Balaenoptera (in other words, "winged whales"), beasts with wrinkled bellies and huge whitish fins that, genus name regardless, do not yet form wings; and the finback whale, yellowish brown, the swiftest of all cetaceans. This powerful animal is audible from far away ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
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Words linked to "Humpback" :   baleen whale, Megaptera, whalebone whale, hunchback, spinal curvature, cripple, genus Megaptera


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