eastern red-backed salamander
Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
western red-backed salamander
Plethodon vehiculum | salamander of the Pacific coast of North America |
red-backed sandpiper
dunlin
Erolia alpina | small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions |
black-backed gull
great black-backed gull
cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
red-backed mouse
redback vole | any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America |
grey lemming
gray lemming
red-backed lemming | Old World lemming |
| mottle | an irregular arrangement of patches of color, it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green |
| mortgage-backed security | a security created when a group of mortgages are gathered together and bonds are sold to other institutions or the public, investors receive a portion of the interest payments on the mortgages as well as the principal payments, usually guaranteed by the government |
mottle
dapple
cloud | colour with streaks or blotches of different shades |
mottle
streak
blotch | mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained |
| backed | having a back or backing, usually of a specified type |
| high-backed | having a high back, a high-backed sofa |
| low-backed | having a low back |
razorback
razor-backed | having a sharp narrow back, a razor-backed horse, razorback hogs |
| spiny-backed | having the back covered with spines |
| stiff-backed | having a stiff back, the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling |
| straight-backed | having a straight back, a straight-backed wooden chair, a slim straight-backed dancer |
red-coated
lobster-backed | used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats |
broken-backed
hogged | (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end |
| broken-backed | having the spine damaged, a broken-backed book, a broken-backed old horse |
| broken-backed | (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth |
hunched
round-backed
round-shouldered
stooped
stooping
crooked | having the back and shoulders rounded, not erect, a little oldish misshapen stooping woman |
| backed | used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light |
erectly
straight-backed | in a straight-backed manner, the old man still walks erectly |