Whale-backed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.

    "In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge."

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"In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge."

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