humpbacked

hump +‎ backed

humpbacked (not comparable)

1. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.

   All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.

2. Being a humpback bridge.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch. Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.

• (medical condition): hunchbacked, kyphotic

• humpbacked salmon
• humpbacked elves

• humpback

humpbacked

1. simple past and past participle of humpback