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gibbous

adjective as in bulging

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adjective as in convex

adjective as in projecting

adjective as in stooped

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The gibbous moon still hangs in the sky and casts a feeble light over the scene.

Now he softly opened the sash, and the radiance of a gibbous moon riding in the opposite sky flooded the apartment.

The ventral margin is sometimes straight and sometimes quite gibbous.

Valve gibbous in the middle, with rounded ends; central area elliptical.

Valve strongly gibbous in the middle; ends rounded; stri, 12-13 in 10 .

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gibbous, such as: awry, crooked, disproportional, lacking correspondence, not proportionate, and not uniform.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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