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单词 hunchback
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
hunch•back /ˈhʌntʃˌbæk/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Pathologya person whose back is humped because of abnormal spinal curvature.
  2. Pathologyhumpback (def. 1).
hunch•backed, adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
hunch•back  (hunchbak′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Pathologya person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Cf. kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
  2. Pathologyhumpback (def. 1).
  • back formation from hunchbacked 1705–15

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
hunchback /ˈhʌntʃˌbæk/ n
  1. a person having an abnormal convex curvature of the thoracic spine
  2. such a curvature

Also called: humpback Etymology: 18th Century: from earlier hunchbacked, huckbacked humpbacked, influenced by bunchbacked, from bunch (in obsolete sense of hump) + backed

ˈhunchˌbacked adj
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