Gibbous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
  • adj. More than half but less than fully illuminated. Used of the moon or a planet.
  • adj. Having a hump; humpbacked.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
  • adj. Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
  • adj. Humpbacked.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex.
  • adj. Hunched; hump-backed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a hunch or protuberance on the back; hunched; humpbacked; crookbacked.
  • Specifically Swelling by a regular curve; convex, as the moon is when more than half and less than full, the illuminated part being then convex on both margins.
  • In botany, having a rounded protuberance at the side or base.
  • In zoology, convex but not regularly rounded; somewhat irregularly raised or swollen; protuberant; humped; gibbose.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of the moon) more than half full
  • adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
  • Equivalent
    convex    bulging    unfit   
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    protuberant    convex    hunched    humpbacked   
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