gibbosity
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The state of being gibbous or gibbose; roundness or protuberance of outline; convexity.
- noun A protuberance; a round or swelling prominence.
- noun In botany, a swelling or protuberance at one side of an organ, usually near the base, as of a calyx.
- noun In zoology, an irregular large protuberance, somewhat rounded, but not forming the segment of a sphere; a hump: as, the gibbosity of or on the back of a camel or zebu.
Examples
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And in those cases where the gibbosity is above the diaphragm, the ribs do not usually expand properly in width, but forward, and the chest becomes sharp-pointed and not broad, and they become affected with difficulty of breathing and hoarseness; for the cavities which inspire and expire the breath do not attain their proper capacity.
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"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.
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So if any one should say, "one may sit upon a horse safer than on a camel," my abstract idea of the two animals includes only an outline of the level back of the one, and the gibbosity on the back of the other.
Note
The word 'gibbosity' comes from a Latin word meaning 'hump'.
