Humpback whales are often curious and may swim right alongside your boat, even rolling side-ways to look up at people.
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Humpback
//ˈhʌmpbæk//
Synonyms for "humpback" (23 found)
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77 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أَحْدَب noun (humpbacked person)
- حَدْبَاء noun (humpbacked person)
Armenian
1 entries- կուզիկ noun (humpbacked person)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- donqar noun (humped back)
- donqar noun (humpbacked person)
- qozbel noun (humpbacked person)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гърбица noun (humped back)
- гърбушко noun (humpbacked person)
Catalan
2 entries- geperuda noun (humpbacked person)
- geperut noun (humpbacked person)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 駝子 /驼子 noun (humpbacked person)
- 駝背 /驼背 noun (humped back)
- 駝背 /驼背 noun (humpbacked person)
Dutch
1 entries- bultenaar noun (humpbacked person)
Finnish
3 entries- kyttyrä noun (humped back)
- kyttyräselkä noun (humpbacked person)
- pyytää ryhävalaita verb (to hunt humpback whales)
French
3 entries- bosse noun (humped back)
- bossu noun (humpbacked person)
- bossue noun (humpbacked person)
Georgian
2 entries- კუზი noun (humped back)
- კუზიანი noun (humpbacked person)
German
3 entries- Buckel noun (humped back)
- Bucklige noun (humpbacked person)
- Buckliger noun (humpbacked person)
Greek
2 entries- καμπούρα noun (humpbacked person)
- καμπούρης noun (humpbacked person)
Hebrew
2 entries- גיבן noun (humpbacked person)
- גיבנה noun (humpbacked person)
Hungarian
1 entries- púp noun (humped back)
Ido
2 entries- gibiero noun (humpbacked person)
- gibozo noun (humpbacked person)
Irish
1 entries- cruitíneach noun (humpbacked person)
Japanese
4 entries- 傴僂 noun (humped back)
- 傴僂 noun (humped back)
- 傴僂 noun (humpbacked person)
- 傴僂 noun (humpbacked person)
Korean
4 entries- 곱사 noun (humped back)
- 곱사 noun (humpbacked person)
- 곱사등 noun (humped back)
- 곱사등이 noun (humpbacked person)
Macedonian
4 entries- гр́бавец noun (humpbacked person)
- гр́бавко noun (humpbacked person)
- гр́пка noun (humped back)
- ка́мбур noun (humpbacked person)
Māori
4 entries- manau noun (humpbacked person)
- piari noun (humpbacked person)
- tuarā hake noun (humped back)
- tāupe noun (humpbacked person)
Navajo
1 entries- yélii noun (humpbacked person)
Persian
1 entries- گوژپشت noun (humpbacked person)
Polish
4 entries- garb noun (humped back)
- garbata noun (humpbacked person)
- garbaty noun (humpbacked person)
- garbus noun (humpbacked person)
Portuguese
2 entries- corcunda noun (humped back)
- corcunda noun (humpbacked person)
Russian
4 entries- горб noun (humped back)
- горба́тая noun (humpbacked person)
- горба́тый noun (humpbacked person)
- горба́ч noun (humpbacked person)
Spanish
4 entries- contrahecho noun (humpbacked person)
- corcovado noun (humpbacked person)
- giboso noun (humpbacked person)
- jorobado noun (humpbacked person)
Swedish
2 entries- puckelrygg noun (humped back)
- puckelrygg noun (humpbacked person)
Tagalog
2 entries- kuba noun (humpbacked person)
- kuba noun (humpbacked person)
Telugu
2 entries- కుబ్జము noun (humped back)
- కుబ్జుడు noun (humpbacked person)
Urdu
1 entries- کبڑا noun (humpbacked person)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
Baleen whales, such as gray and humpback whales, have hundreds of comb-like plates with stiff bristles growing from the upper jaw to strain small food from huge mouthfuls of water.
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Within national marine sanctuaries's protected waters, giant humpback whales breed and calve their young, temperate reefs flourish, and shipwrecks tell stories of our maritime history.
Source: tatoeba (6675785)
Humpback whales migrate annually through the Sargasso Sea.
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