gibbosity

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Behind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge.

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  1. noun The condition of being gibbous.
  2. noun A rounded hump or protuberance.

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  • Behind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed a colour to, so as to put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin. —  Ulysses
  • But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed —  Ulysses
  • "The different species of the Ox kind may be readily distinguished from the Gayal by the following marks; the European and Indian oxen by the length of their tails, which reach to the false hoofs; the American Ox, by the gibbosity on its back; the _Bovis moschatus_, Caffer, and —  Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
  • "I do hope you'll be better to-morrow," she said, and she commiserated with Anne on all she had missed -- the garden, the stars, the scent of flowers, the meteorites through whose summer shower the earth was now passing, the rising moon and its gibbosity. —  Crome Yellow
 

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  1. = French gibbosité = Provencal gilbositat, gelbositat = Portuguese gibosidade = Italian gibbosità, as gibbous, gibbose, + -ity.
 

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/gɪˈbɑsəti/
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