Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a gibbous or protuberant form.
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- adverb In a
gibbous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The eldritch lights of the timestreams overhead lit Ivan's face gibbously as he cavorted atop the roof of his ancient fortress.
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The _spikelets_ are white, in two rows on a flattened rachis, obliquely ovoid or gibbously globose, glabrous, sessile, 1/8 inch in length.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikes are of one linear joint gibbously bulbous at the base, and jointed on the peduncle at the base of the spathe by a minute curved pedicel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _second glume_ is equal to the first glume in height, chartaceous, gibbously convex, broadly ovate, acute, 9 - to 11-nerved, and with a short wing to the keel at the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The second glume is thinner than the first, broadly ovate, acute and gibbously convex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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