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Meanings of razorback in English
Portuguese
baleia-jubarte Catalan
balena amb gep Any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin.
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Examples for "razor-backed"
Examples for "razor-backed"
1
Moreover, their stock is of poor breeds; the pigs especially being wretched razor-backed creatures.
2
I reckon the girl was all right, but the family were these razor-backed, barnyard savages.
3
They are generally razor-backed beasts, with one or two raws, and blind, at least, of one eye.
4
Pigs, gone back to wildness, range the ridges, each razor-backed drove captained by a gaunt, savage, slab-sided old boar.
5
There is another whale, found in the northern regions, called the razor-backed whale, from a prominent ridge on its back.
Usage of razorback in English
1
The Barrier range is a maze of defiles and razorback ridges.
2
The one in front was shorter, older, built like a razorback.
3
North-west of Porter's Range, and between it and the razorback, were two small peaks.
4
After all, the razorback might not be a true animal at all, but a shapeshifter.
5
And that there's Henrietta, the great Atlantean razorback.
6
With her was a razorback, a feral hog.
7
I hoped the razorback was feeling friendly.
8
The little-boned Berkshire razorback hogs grew so large and fat and heavy that their bones broke under their weight.
9
Fin whales, also called razorback whales, are the second largest living animal after the blue whale and are classified as endangered.
10
Roasted Murray cod with warrigal greens, whipped roe and razorback prawns is one of the most delicious dishes we've eaten this year.
11
I could see the little brushy tail of the razorback-itwas switching back and forth in a brisk, impatient sort of way.
12
Bivens, his schoolmate at college-Bivens ,thelittle razorback scion of poor white trash from the South who had suddenly become a millionaire!
13
The half-wild razorback, with never a clutch of corn to his back, gives abundant food to the mountaineer over whose forest he ranges.
14
This he provisioned with a jug of water, a starch box full of white corn-meal, and a wide strip of lean razorback bacon.
15
He pressed forward to where a little, old, dried up "razorback" was regaling two of the workmen with words of experience if not wisdom.
16
Have the canvas men on guard, and summon the razorbacks, if necessary.
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Razorback through the time