gibbose

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gibbosus, from gibbus, gibba (“hunch, hump”). Compare gibbous.

Adjective

gibbose (comparative more gibbose, superlative most gibbose)

1. humped; protuberant; having one or more large elevations

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gibbose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• gobbies

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Italian

Adjective

gibbose

1. feminine plural of gibboso

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) gibbōse

1. vocative masculine singular of gibbōsus