whale-backed
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]whale-backed (comparative more whale-backed, superlative most whale-backed)
- Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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.