whale-backed

English

Adjective

whale-backed (comparative more whale-backed, superlative most whale-backed)

1. Of a landform, having a gentle curve resembling the back of a whale.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     In front was an open plain, sloping slightly upwards and dotted with clumps of tree-ferns, the whole curving before us until it ended in a long, whale-backed ridge.