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Definition of 'gibbous'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
*1886 , Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge ,
*:In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
(astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
Humpbacked.
*1697 , Dryden, Aeneid ,
*:A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
*:Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
Derived terms
* gibbous moon
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