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Razor-backed

Razor-backed \Ra"zor-backed"\ (-b[a^]kt`), a. (Zo["o]l.) Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.

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razor-backed

a. (context zoology English) Having a sharp, lean, or thin back.

WordNet
razor-backed

adj. having a sharp narrow back; "a razor-backed horse"; "razorback hogs" [syn: razorback]

Usage examples of "razor-backed".

The high dunes writhed together like a nest of razor-backed vipers, the colour of ripe wheat and copper, and he banked the Mosquito and followed the endless beaches upon which the surf broke in regular snowy lines until he saw the horn of the bay spike into the restless ocean and the lighthouse on Pelican Point winked at him through the fog banks.

He gestured around them, at the wild crystalline landscape, the dazzling gorges and razor-backed ridges of glass.

We can't even ride to the brothel and back on account of our horses being razor-backed pieces of four-legged hogshit.

There are still undiscovered tribes living in the razor-backed, jungle-wracked mountain valleys.

They'd given up in the end, however, and driven their great glittering flocks back to their hidden lands among the razor-backed mountains near the Hub.