Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbosities
Literary usage of Gibbosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1901)
"gibbosities on the disk of the posterior prothoracic lobe surmounted by a smal]
tubercle. Sides of the female abdomen very prominently undulate. undulata ..."
2. Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart by Charles Lyell (1881)
"He imagines that the lava is escaping from under one or both the gibbosities,
without any steam or explosive gases, tranquilly welling out, and rising up ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1841)
"14): in fact, two gibbosities, representing the anther-cells (a, c); a very broad
connective (6); and around all this a disc (rf), of which, moreover, ..."
4. Synopsis of American Wasps by Henri de Saussure, Edward Norton (1875)
"Swollen posteriorly, forming two gibbosities, its margin very deeply ...
Without strong gibbosities ; the margin only strongly ..."
5. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Robert Jameson, Wernerian Natural History Society (1825)
"With triangular scales, twice as broad as long, their eroded margins meeting so
as to form the segment of a circle, gibbous on the back, the gibbosities ..."
6. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... first appears as two large obtuse gibbosities, opposite to the lateral sepals,
which remain simple, and become the short stamens. ..."
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