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whaleback

noun

Meaning

  1. A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal
  2. A land form (typically a sand dune) having the form of the back of a whale

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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