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whale-backed

whale-backed adjective: of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.

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.
    • 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

Forms of whale-backed

comparativemore whale-backed
superlativemost whale-backed

Questions about whale-backed

What does whale-backed mean?
Whale-backed means of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.
What part of speech is whale-backed?
Whale-backed is an adjective.

Words near whale-backed in the dictionary

  1. whale watching
  2. whale's guide
  3. whale's road
  4. whale's tail
  5. whale's way
  6. whale-backed
  7. whale-fisher
  8. whale-fishers
  9. whale-path
  10. whale-road
  11. whale-roads

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