[
US
/ˈhəmpˌbæk/
]
[ UK /hˈʌmpbæk/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌmpbæk/ ]
NOUN
- a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
- an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
- large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
How To Use humpback In A Sentence
- Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
- The Makah were renowned whale hunters and stratigraphic unit V yielded the remains of at least 67 animals, mainly humpbacks and greys.
- Spend six to eight hours a day on the water with giant blue whales, finbacks and humpbacks as you assist researchers with data collection.
- Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday.
- When a humpback is corralling herring and other fishes, the net may be 150 feet wide.
- I had my base camp here" — a red square — "and I was tracking this humpback lacertilian through here" — dotted yellow meanders. Perseus Spur
- These include the bonytail chub, humpback chub, Sonora chub, Chihuahua chub, beautiful shiner, Pecos bluntnose shiner, razorback sucker, Colorado squawfish, Pyramid Lake cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout. North American Deserts ecoregion (CEC)
- About a dozen whales have been spotted to date, mostly humpbacks, and five have been darted.
- But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
- Icicles fringed every overhang, and several outriding, smaller floes cupped a protected lagoon in which two large humpbacks idled and blew. The Whale Warriors
