humpbacked

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It is awesome to witness an enormous reptile with a huge, humpbacked shell and enormously thick legs glomp slowly forward, with majestic indifference to the gawkers by the trail, myself included.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

On a recent Friday afternoon, hundreds of visitors in soccer uniforms or draped in flags waited for their turn to mount the humpbacked animals.

From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2022

This humpbacked start over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is one of great expectancy, so the first mile uphill is hardly noticeable and the second mile downhill gives a giddy but treacherous sense of ease.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2021

The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021

But thank God we did not see any of these, only humpbacked lizards as big as your arm which the people here catch and eat They love meat All the people in this village.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker