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Definition of "saddle-backed" [sad•dle-backed]

  • Shaped or curved like a saddle. (adjective)
  • Having a saddle-shaped marking; saddleback. (adjective)
  • With a saddle, rather than bare-backed (adverb)

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Use "saddle-backed" in a sentence
  • "D. arnoldi was reported to be the most divergent, with a special saddle-backed morphology allowing it to be a specialist high-browser."
  • "And this same heath, made up of a light fawn-colored sand, lying on "dry, thirsty stone," was, twenty years since at least, blooming all over with rank, dark lines of turnips; trim, low hedges skirted the level highways; neat farm-cottages were flanked with great saddle-backed ricks; thousands upon thousands of long-woolled sheep cropped the luxuriant pasturage, and the Dunston column was down."
  • "Down the slope of the immense saddle-backed range lie fields of the brightest green, divided by banks and hedges delightful to look at after the grim stone walls of Mayo, Galway, and Clare."