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Definition of Gibbosity
1. Noun. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. "The bony excrescence between its horns"
Specialized synonyms: Frontal Eminence, Occipital Protuberance, Belly, Caput, Mogul, Nub, Nubble, Snag, Wart
Generic synonyms: Projection
Derivative terms: Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulgy, Excrescent, Gibbous, Gibbous, Hump, Protrude, Protrude, Protuberant, Protuberate
Definition of Gibbosity
1. Noun. The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gibbosity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbosity
Literary usage of Gibbosity
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)
"When two ships, sailing contrary ways, lose the sight one of another, . . .
what should take away the sight of these »hips from each other but the gibbosity ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1885)
"Dorsum of abdomen with a large, elongate, red-pilose, red spot; facial gibbosity
large, hemispherical |(ilva Linné. Abdomen without such spot; ..."
3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1890)
"Dirty yellow, prothorax gibbous anter gibbosity greenish. ... in front, superiorly
a large gibbosity occupying about one-half of protho- rax, greenish; ..."
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