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      humpback
      noun
      large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
      a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
      an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
      Roots
      homphump- · Low German · lump/bumpbaecback- · Old English · back
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