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hump·back  (hmpbk)

n.

1. See hunchback.

2. A humped upper back.

3. A humpback whale.

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humpbacked adj.

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humpback [ˈhʌmpˌbæk]

n

1. (Medicine / Pathology) another word for hunchback

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Also called humpback whale a large whalebone whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, closely related and similar to the rorquals but with a humped back and long flippers: family Balaenopteridae

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, the male of which has a humped back and hooked jaws

4. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) Also called humpback bridge Brit a road bridge having a sharp incline and decline and usually a narrow roadway

[alteration of earlier crumpbacked, perhaps influenced by hunchback; perhaps related to Dutch homp lump]

humpbacked  adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	humpback - an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column hunchback, kyphosis spinal curvature - an abnormal curvature of the vertebral column
	2.	humpback - a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine crookback, hunchback cripple - someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
	3.	humpback - large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae baleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water genus Megaptera, Megaptera - humpback whales

Translations

humpback [ˈhʌmpbæk] N

1. (= person) → jorobado/a m/f
to have a humpback → ser jorobado

2. (= whale) (also humpback whale) → rorcual m

humpback [ˈhʌmpbæk] n → bossu(e) m/f
humpbacked bridge humpback bridge n (mainly British) → dos m d'âne
humpback whale n → baleine f à bosse

humpback

n (= person) → Buck(e)lige(r) mf; (= back) → Buckel m

humpback [ˈhʌmpˌbæk] n (also humpback bridge) → ponte m a schiena d'asino