[
US
/ˈɹeɪzɝˌbæk/
]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪzəbˌæk/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪzəbˌæk/ ]
NOUN
- any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin
- a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States
ADJECTIVE
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having a sharp narrow back
razorback hogs
a razor-backed horse
How To Use razorback In A Sentence
- Getting up Mt. Gudmundson didn't look so easy as there was a very steep ice and snow bank forming a razorback up to the rocky outcrops.
- To Marie, it looked like " a razorback ridge of featureless rock".
- The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?' Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
- As long as Woolly Razorback has an ice counter on it, it has defender and any combat damage it would deal is prevented.
- Occasionally I glimpsed in the west a forested, razorback ridge sloping toward the equatorial lowlands below.
- The one on the left is a "hoofer" (Points = 5) and the other is a "razorback" (Points = Kruse Kronicle
- Javid Milton scored from a yard out on fourth down to make it 24-14, but the Leathernecks couldn't hold off the Razorbacks much longer. USATODAY.com
- The Bulldogs were overpowering from the opening kickoff, and dealt a crushing blow to the Razorbacks 'confidence by scoring NCAA Football - Georgia vs. Arkansas
- The present period is most undoubtedly the period of the cetaceans; and the future geologist who goes hunting for dry bones among the ooze of the Atlantic, now known to us only by the scanty dredgings of our 'Alerts' and 'Challengers,' but then upheaved into snow-clad Alps or vine-covered Apennines, will doubtless stand aghast at the huge skeletons of our whales and our razorbacks, and will mutter to himself in awe-struck astonishment, in the exact words of my friend at South Kensington, 'Things used all to be so very big in those days, usedn't they?' Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
- However, the razorback pigs from which it is made are raised in N. Carolina as well as in Virginia.
