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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gibbose en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. humped; protuberant; having one or more large elevations
    • 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[…] 1752, John Hill, A General Natural History:

Forms

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more gibbose Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most gibbose Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

gibbosely