gibbous
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Still more are promised, hopefully Keith, Gibbous and Reverend.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2011
Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like f's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gibbous, gib′us, adj. hump-backed: swelling, convex, as the moon when nearly full—also Gibb′ose.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Gibbous, more tumid at one place or on one side than the other.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Gibbous: hump-backed; protuberant: said of a macula when it resembles a moon more than half full.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Vocabulary lists containing gibbous
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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The Moon – Introductory
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