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单词 humpback
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humpbackn.adj.

Etymology: See hump n. In this combination, as in hump shoulder , hump may be taken as an adjective: compare the earlier crump-back , see crump adj.1 and n.1 Compounds.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhumpback.
A. n.
1. (ˌhump-ˈback.) A back having a hump; a humped back.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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