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Definition of Gibbose
1. Adjective. (used of the moon) more than half full.
Definition of Gibbose
1. a. Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations.
Definition of Gibbose
1. gibbous [adj] - See also: gibbous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbose
Literary usage of Gibbose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The state of being gibbous or gibbose ; roundness or protuberance of outline ;
convexity. When two ships, sailing contrary ways, lose the sight one of ..."
2. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"Shell largo, triangularly fusiform, obliquely gibbose and truncate, adpressed
posteriorly, forming a concave posterior surface, placed obliquely to the ..."
3. The Tettigidae of North America by Joseph Lane Hancock (1902)
"Anteriorly before the shoulders there appears more decided constriction, elevating
this part of the dorsum into a gibbose eminence; the median carina of the ..."
4. Stratigraphical System of Organized Fossils by William Smith (1817)
"Subtriangular, gibbose; beaks prominent; anterior side narrow, ... Wider than
long, gibbose; beaks prominent, incurved, placed near one side; the opposite ..."
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