Sentence example with the word 'gibbous'

gibbous

arched, arclike, bandy, bowlike, camelback, convex, crookbacked, excurvate, excurved, humpbacked, humpy, hunched, kyphotic, oxbow, vaulted

Definition adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis

Last update: August 12, 2015

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In Valeriana, Antirrhinum and Corydalis, the spur is very short, and the corolla or petal is said to be gibbous, or saccate, at the base.   [Please select]

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Gibbous: hump-backed; protuberant: said of a macula when it resembles a moon more than half full.   [Please select]

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Outer lip thickened, reflected, with a gibbous obsolete tooth within.   [Please select]

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The moon overhead was gibbous, and there were no clouds in the sky.   [Please select]

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One of these Brehm terms the `white-headed gibbous swan' (_Cygnus gibbus_).'   [Please select]

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_--Capitulum gibbous, broadly oval, nearly a quarter of an inch long.   [Please select]

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They are fusiform, slightly gibbous, and of a buff-color.   [Please select]

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The gibbous moon was directly overhead, and shone down upon her with unobstructed fullness.   [Please select]

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Two of them are `gibbous,' that is, with a knob or protuberance upon the upper part of the bill.'   [Please select]

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At this time Daniel Gibbous was about forty years old, and his wife about twenty-eight, she having been born on the ninth of the seventh month, 1787.   [Please select]

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