gibbose

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English

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Etymology

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Latin gibbosus, from gibbus, gibba (hunch, hump). Compare gibbous.

Adjective

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gibbose (comparative more gibbose, superlative most gibbose)

  1. 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 []

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Italian

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Adjective

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gibbose

  1. feminine plural of gibboso

Latin

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Adjective

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gibbōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of gibbōsus