humpbacked
adjEtymology From hump + backed.
1
Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
- All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.
2
Being a humpback bridge.
- There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch. Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- hunchbacked, kyphotic
- Derived terms
- humpbacked salmon, humpbacked elves
- Related terms
- humpback