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Definition of Gibbous
1. Adjective. Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.
Similar to: Unfit
Derivative terms: Crookback, Gibbosity, Gibbousness, Kyphosis
2. Adjective. (used of the moon) more than half full.
Definition of Gibbous
1. a. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half- moon and the full moon.
Definition of Gibbous
1. Adjective. Characterized by convexity; protuberant. ¹
2. Adjective. (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter. ¹
3. Adjective. Humpbacked. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gibbous
1. irregularly rounded [adj]
Medical Definition of Gibbous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbous
Literary usage of Gibbous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Saturn and Its System: Containing Discussions of the Motions (real and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1865)
"Owing to the immensity of Saturn's orbit compared with the orbit of the earth,
he never presents a gibbous appearance. It will be obvious from an inspection ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"Finally, there are some in which the forehead forms a gibbous projection in front
of a mouth placed farther back2. ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... often purple, striale with 12 hairy ribs, gibbous at base on the upper side;
tube ventricose, contracted at throat, with the limb more or less dilated, ..."
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