gibbous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Curved or bulged outward.
    — In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
  2. Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
    — The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
  3. Humpbacked.
    — A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;

词形变化

more gibbous comparative most gibbous superlative

词汇关系

近义词
bulging convex crookbacked humpbacked protuberant
衍生词
gibbose gibbosity gibbously gibbous moon gibbousness subgibbous waning gibbous

词源

From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).
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