gibbose
English
editEtymology
editLatin gibbosus, from gibbus, gibba (“hunch, hump”). Compare gibbous.
Adjective
editgibbose (comparative more gibbose, superlative most gibbose)
- humped; protuberant; having one or more large elevations
- 1752, John Hill, A General Natural History:
- Of those which are of a more globose figure , or have both shells gibbose and armed with spines, there are , 1. The large , very gibbose Ostrea , with rounded and not very numerous spines […]
References
edit- “gibbose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Latin
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