資料來源 : pyDict
駝背,座頭鯨,小魚
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Humpback \Hump"back`\, n. [Cf. {Hunchback}.]
1. A crooked back; a humped back. --Tatler.
2. A humpbacked person; a hunchback.
3. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any whale of the genus {Megaptera}, characterized by a
hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known.
The most common ones in the North Atlantic are
{Megaptera longimana} of Europe, and {M. osphyia} of
America; that of the California coasts is {M.
versabilis}.
(b) A small salmon ({Oncorhynchus gorbuscha}), of the
northwest coast of America.
資料來源 : WordNet®
humpback
n 1: an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column [syn: {kyphosis},
{hunchback}]
2: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature
of the upper spine [syn: {hunchback}, {crookback}]
3: large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching
or humping its back as it dives [syn: {humpback whale}, {Megaptera
novaeangliae}]