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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf.

A crooked back; a humped back.

Tatler.

A humpbacked person; a hunchback.

(Zool.)

(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

Megaptera osphyia

of America; that of the California coasts is

Megaptera versabilis

(b)

A small salmon (

Oncorhynchus gorbuscha

), of the northwest coast of America; the

Noun.

A crooked back; high shoulders.