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UK
/ɡˈɪbəs/
]
ADJECTIVE
- (used of the moon) more than half full
- characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
How To Use gibbous In A Sentence
- `The gibbous moon hung low over the eldritch and batrachian inhabitants of squamous Dulwich. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
- It has also entered its uninteresting season for telescopic observers; it looks like a small, featureless, gibbous Moon for the rest of the year.
- My hand was clasped around hers, and the light of the gibbous moon set a silver path out before us.
- It is inky dark, with fireflies flashing in the trees and a gibbous moon hanging over Venus.
- The male hooded merganser, with his distinct gibbous moon crest, demands immediate attention.
- Unfortunately waning gibbous moon is up between midnight and dawn – the best hours for meteor - watching.
- +Cap+ bright yellowish or orange color, 3 to 7 inches broad, convex, then flattened, gibbous, that is, more convex on one side than on the other; viscid, covered with woolly (floccose) scales, which often separate. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
- The planet Jupiter blazes near the gibbous moon tonight.
- As I nestle into my bedroll and blanket, I gaze up at the sky and see that a couple of stars have come out and also a gibbous moon has risen in the north.
- Our sky chart shows the bright gibbous moon and the planet Jupiter for around mid - evening tonight.