saddleback

saddleback

1. a marking resembling a saddle on the backs of various animals

2. a breed of black pig with a white band across its back

3. a rare bird of New Zealand, Philesturnus carunculatus, having a chestnut-coloured saddle-shaped marking across its back and wings

4. another name for col

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saddleback

[′sad·əl‚bak]

(geology)

A hill or ridge with a concave outline along its crest.

(meteorology)

The cloudless air between the “towers” of two cumulus congestus or cumulonimbus clouds and above a lower cloud mass.

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