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saddle-backed
[ sad-l-bakt ]
adjective
- having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- having a saddlelike marking on the back, as certain birds.
saddle-backed
adjective
- having the back curved in shape or concave like a saddle
- having a saddleback
Word History and Origins
Origin of saddle-backed1
Example Sentences
"The photos from the team clearly show a moderately saddle-backed, old female about half to two-thirds the size of the known male. Pending genetic confirmation, this is almost undoubtedly the lost Fernandina Giant Tortoise."
"The photos from the team clearly show a moderately saddle-backed, old female about half to two-thirds the size of the known male. Pending genetic confirmation, this is almost undoubtedly the lost Fernandina Giant Tortoise."
Sensing potential clients, a stallholder pulls a tiny pygmy marmoset and a saddle-backed tamarin from her bun as they emit high-pitched shrieks.
In a Dec. 4 , Eric Michael Johnson wrote that saddle-backed tamarins are socially monogamous.
It has a singular appearance: it might be likened in its form to a hippopotamus standing on the flat margin of an African lake, its breast and mouth touching the water, and all its body belly-deep in the mud; it is, in fact, a hill or a promontory united to the mainland by a strip of low flat land—a huge, oblong, saddle-backed hill projected into the sea towards Wales.
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