saddleback noun & adjective.
['sad(ǝ)lbak] M16.[from SADDLE noun + BACK noun1.]A. noun.
1. A thing, now esp. a hill or ridge, having a concavely curved or depressed upper outline.
M16.2. Any of various animals or birds with saddle-like markings on the back, as a black-backed gull, a hooded crow, a saddleback seal, dolphin, shrew, etc.;
esp. a New Zealand wattlebird,
Creadion carunculatus.
L18.b. (An animal of) each of three breeds of black pig having a white band running across the shoulders and down to the forelegs.
E20.WESSEX saddleback.
3. Architecture. A tower roof having two opposite gables connected by a ridged-roof.
M19.4. Geology. An anticline.
L19.b. adjective. =
SADDLEBACKED adjective;
esp. (of an animal) having saddle-like markings on the back.
L17.saddleback caterpillar the larva of the N. American moth
Sibine stimulea (family Limacodidae), which has stinging hairs.
saddleback crow the hooded crow.
saddleback dolphin the common dolphin.
saddleback gull a black-backed gull, esp.
Larus marinus.
saddleback jackal an African black-backed jackal,
Canis mesomelas.
saddleback pig = sense A.2b above.
saddleback seal a mature male harp seal.
saddleback shrew the Arctic shrew of N. America,
Sorex arcticus.
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