Generally this part is flat; but the disk is elevated or gibbous in Oryctes and some other Lamellicorns.
In the majority it is more convex below than above, except in the case of the hemispherical or gibbousbeetles (Coccinella, Erotylus, &c.
In Erotylus there are two groups; one distinguished by gibbous elytra, and the other by flatter ones.
Sides of the bough, Streight, their extremities pointing obliquely towards the extremities of the bough and more thickly placed than in either of the other Species; gibbous and flexable but more stiff than any except No.
All who are abroad during the first half of the night find this phase of the moon more favorable to them than the gibbous phase following full moon.
The atmosphere was charged with smoke--probably from some big fire among the spinifex, far away northward--and a nucleus of brighter light on the meridian showed the position of a gibbous moon.
The moon hung above the western horizon, in her most formidable phase--just past the semicircle, with her gibbous edge malignantly feathered.
How Oxen in some Countries began and continue gibbousor bunch-back'd?
Of the same appellation we meet with one in Rondeletius, called by the French Gibbar, from its round and Gibbous back.
Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
Defn: The state of being gibbousor gibbose; gibbousness.
The lovers had little to say to each other, as the canoe slipped back down the whispering river under that gibbous moon.
Joan cheerily to herself on each occasion, thinking of a certain evening under a beech-tree by the light of the gibbous moon.
A gibbous harvest-moon was gazing down at them with its wry face when the two awoke to the fact that the hour was late and cold, particularly for a girl dressed airily in chiffon.
Varices, longitudinal, gibbous sutures formed in the shell, at certain distances on the whorls.
The original genus Bulla was composed of an assemblage of shells of various characters, having little resemblance except in their gibbous form.
So gaunt against the gibbous moon, Piercing the silence velvet-piled, A lone wolf howls his ancient rune, The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.
Pileus= gibbous or convex, covered with a brownish separating gluten, becoming yellowish-brown and virgate-spotted.
But aside from a brilliant disk, now a slender crescent, now half full like the moon at quarter, and again gibbous as the moon is between quarter and full, the telescope reveals but little.
Afterward the phase phenomena recur in the reverse order, with third quarter midway between full and new moon again; the phase of the moon being called gibbous all the way from first quarter to third quarter, except when exactly full.
If the same plant is observed in the summer it will be found to be gibbous or convex in form.
Steep and gibbous behind, becoming at length smooth and equal.
Its head is short and deep, with a thin and gibbous profile, and small mouth.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, somewhat spreading, several-nerved, not gibbous nor spurred at base, free.
Perianth neither gibbousnor with any trace of a spur or sac at the base.
Lip dilated and recurved-spreading toward the summit; very slightly gibbous at base.
Corolla of 4 or 5 separate erect spatulate or wedge-shaped scale-like petals, which are gibbous or saccate at the base, and tardily deciduous.
Corolla tubular, gibbous at base, somewhat equally 5-lobed, scarcely longer than the calyx.
Calyx gibbous on the lower side, hairy in the throat.
Stamens 12 and petals 6 on the throat of a tubular inflated or gibbous calyx.
Valve lunate, with straight or slightly gibbous ventral margin; axial area indistinct; median line straight or nearly so; striae punctate.
Valve linear-elliptical, gibbous on the ventral side; axial area indistinct; central area widened on the ventral side nearly to the margin.
Valve cymbiform, with gibbous ventral margin and truncate apices; a distinct row of several puncta occurs below the median line in typical forms.
And so in his young intolerance, maddened by pain, he saw all things gibbous like the mocking moon.
He leant out of his window, and looked at the gibbous moon.
The stars and thegibbous moon demanded to be looked at, and when one meteorite had streaked across the sky, you could not help waiting, open-eyed and alert, for the next.
Under the stars, under the gibbous moon, assuredly they would sleep.
The last few hundred feet had to be made by slow, laborious feeling, aided only by such dim reflections of the gibbous moon as glimmered through a window, cobweb-hung, or through some break in the walls.
The gibbous moon, red and sullen, was just beginning to thrust its strangely mottled face above the uneasy moving plain of waters.
And if you do consider how any rugged body would appeare, being enlightned, you would easily conceive that it must necessarily seeme under some such gibbous unequall forme, as the Moone is here represented.
Mars, however, is sufficiently near to appear somewhat gibbous when at or near one of its quadratures.
For a week after the full, the moon appears gibbous again, until, having arrived within ninety degrees of the sun, she resumes the same form as at the first quarter, being then at her third quarter.
A distinct, although very slight, gibbous appearance is visible when the planet is near quadrature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gibbous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arched; bandy; concave; convex; gibbous; humpbacked; humped; hunched; protuberant; rotund; vaulted
