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humpback noun & adjective. L17.
[Prob. formed as HUMP noun + BACK noun1: repl. earlier synon. crump-back and perh. infl. by hunchback.]
A. noun.
A back with a hump; a humped back. L17.
A person with a humped back, a hunchback. E18.
a. = humpback whale below. E18.
b. = humpback salmon below. L19.
b. adjective. Having a back with a hump. E18.
humpback bridge a small bridge with a steep ascent and descent. humpback salmon a medium-sized migratory salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, of the Pacific and (more recently) Atlantic Oceans, the male of which has a humped back at spawning time; also called gorbuscha, pink salmon. humpback sucker US a freshwater fish, Xyrauchen texanus, of the Colorado basin. humpback whale a large black baleen whale with white-marked flippers, Megaptera novaeangliae (family Balaenopteridae), having a fleshy pad on the back and a complex mating call.
humpbacked adjective having a humpback L17.