gibb-, gibbo-, gibboso- (Latin: hump, humpbacked).gibbosity:
The condition of having a humpback.
2. A hump or gibbus, as the deformity of Pott's disease. gibbous:
1. Humped; protuberant, swelling, or hunchbacked.
2. One reference is to the moon or a planet when the illuminated portion exceeds a semicircle, but is less than a circle. 3. Of persons and animals: Hunch-backed; having a hump. Of a part of the body: Hump-shaped. gibbus:
Hump; protuberance, swelling.
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