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Gibbous   Listen
adjective
Gibbous  adj.  
1.
Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. "The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member."
2.
Hunched; hump-backed. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Gibbous" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Eye, all the soft lights within the city had gone out. Dense, utter, impenetrable darkness reigned, and even the gibbous moon, floating overhead, seemed ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various


Words linked to "Gibbous" :   convex, gibbose, unfit, crookback, hunchbacked, gibbousness, gibbosity, bulging, crookbacked, kyphotic, humpbacked


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