gibbose

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

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 […]

References
  • gibbose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

gibbose

  1. feminine plural of gibboso

Latin

Adjective

gibbōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of gibbōsus
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