Thesaurus: gibbous
Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
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Definitions
- a. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the moon">half-moon and the full moon.
- a. Hunched; hump-backed.
- adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
- adj. (used of the moon) more than half full
- j:100 s. (used of the moon) more than half full