单词 | humpback |
释义 | humpbackn.adj. A. n. 1. (ˌhump-ˈback.) A back having a hump; a humped back. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back crooked-rig1382 crouchbackc1491 crook-back?1507 bunch-back1618 crump-backa1661 humpback1697 hunchback1718 huckle-back1762 cyphosis1847 bowbackedness1864 kyphosis- 1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop ii, in Wks. (1840) 373/1 Who'd think that little hump-back of his should have so much brains in't? 1709 Tatler No. 75. ⁋6 The eldest Son of Philip..being born with an Hump-back and very high Nose..These several Defects were mended by succeeding Matches; the Eyes were open'd in the next Generation, and the Hump fell in a Century and half. 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 64 I have never met with one, Bull, Ox, or Cow..with a high Hump-back. 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 118 Those who are deformed with hump-backs bear the greatest share of reputation. 2. (ˈhumpback.) A person with a humped back; a hunchback. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back > person crouchbackc1491 crook-backa1513 urchin1528 lord1653 crump-backa1661 crump1698 hump1708 humpback1712 hunchback1712 crumple-back1845 bible-back1873 knarl- 1712 tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (ed. 2) III. xcix. 125 He march'd along as they did and follow'd Humpback. 1715 tr. Arab. Nts. (ed. 3) V. clxxxiv. 67 That Hump-back is not dead. 1852 J. L. Motley Let. 13 Sept. in Corr. (1889) I. v. 139 Humpbacks and cripples. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. iii. 302 An ill-natured humpback. 3. = humpback salmon n., humpback sucker n., humpback whale n. at sense B. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Megaptera (humpback whale) humpback1726 humpback whale1726 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > gorbuscha haddo (humpback) humpback salmon1869 humpback1881 hogback1889 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > xyrauchen texanus (humpback) humpback1965 humpback sucker1965 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 258 Both the Finbacks and Humpbacks are shaped in Reeves longitudinal from Head to Tail on their Bellies and their Sides. 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 232 The Humpback is seldom molested by whalers. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 182 The hump-back, taken in salt water about Seattle, shows the same peculiarities. 1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 729/1 The ‘steel-head’, the ‘dog-salmon’, and the ‘humpback’. 1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 72/3 The other five salmon species, all on the Pacific Coast, are the Chinook (also called the king salmon), the sockeye, the silver, the humpback, and the chum. 1963 Vancouver Sun 13 Aug. 14/1 Humpback is the old and still popular name for the pink salmon. 1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 411/1 The humpback [sucker] prefers the slow-moving parts of larger streams. B. adj. (ˈhumpback). Having a hump on the back; humpbacked. humpback butterfish n. humpback salmon n. = gorbuscha n., haddo n. humpback sucker n. U.S. Xyrauchen texanus, a freshwater fish of the Colorado basin. humpback whale n. a whale of the genus Megaptera, so called because the low dorsal fin forms a characteristic hump on the back. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back hoveredc897 embossedc1430 bow-backed1470 crook-backed1477 courbe-backed1480 bunch-backed1519 hunchbacked1598 buncht-back1603 crouch-backed1606 hulch1611 hulch-backed1611 hulched1611 crouchback1627 camel-backed1631 huck-backed1631 hulchy1632 boss-backed1640 gibbous1646 huckle-backeda1652 hulck-backed1656 hunched1656 crump-backeda1661 humpbacked1681 humped1713 humpback1726 humptya1825 hunchy1841 bible-backed1857 crooked-backed1866 cyphotic1889 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to the back > hump-backed humpbacked1681 humpback1726 the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > family Balaenopteridae > genus Megaptera (humpback whale) humpback1726 humpback whale1726 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > gorbuscha haddo (humpback) humpback salmon1869 humpback1881 hogback1889 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > xyrauchen texanus (humpback) humpback1965 humpback sucker1965 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 258 The Bunch or humpback Whale, is distinguished from the right Whale, by having a Bunch standing in the Place where the Fin does in the Finback. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 211 Whales of the ‘humpback’ species. 1869 Mainland Guardian (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) 25 Sept. 2/1 The Oleys or Hones appear every alternate year; they are known as the Humpback salmon. 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 177 The fact that the hump-back salmon runs only on alternate years in Puget sound..is well attested. 1891 Fur, Fin & Feather Mar. 151 The salmon most plentiful in the Alaska waters is known as the humpback or garbusche. 1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 410/2 Humpback sucker Xyrauchen texanus. 1971 B. J. Muus Freshwater Fish Brit. & Europe 64/2 The humpback salmon is distinguished from other Pacific salmon by its short, 2-year life-cycle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1697 |
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