gibbous

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  1. adjective Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
  2. adjective More than half but less than fully illuminated. Used of the moon or a planet.
  3. adjective Having a hump; humpbacked.

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  • Harry half wished that he hadn't asked what was under a dementor's hood, the answer had been so horrible, and he was so lost in unpleasant thoughts of what it would feel like to have your soul sucked out of you that he walked headlong into Professor McGonagall halfway up the stairs. —  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • At last, as the gibbous red moon was rising, they passed sentries and rode down into the gorge to where the rest of the gang waited. —  Chosen Of The Gods
  • The moon was gibbous, but it gave too strong a light for my purposes. —  The Curse of the Pharaohs
  • It turned to a gibbous blue world, getting smaller, then smaller still. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • The moon rose gibbous, only half an hour later than before, for it was waning down from Harvest, to be reborn as Hunter's. —  Operation Luna
 

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  1. Middle English, bulging, from Late Latin gibbōsus, hunch-backed, from Latin gibbus, hump.

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  1. Also gibberose, gibbose = French gibbeux = Spanish giboso, jiboso = Portuguese giboso, gibboso— Italian gibboso; from Latin gibbosus, a different reading of gibberosus, hunched, humped, from gibber, a hunch, hump, from gibber, adjective, hunched, humped. Cf. equivalent gibbus, hunched: see gibber.
 

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