Definition of "gibbose" [gib•bose]

• Humped; protuberant; having one or more large elevations (adjective)

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• "The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of the genus."
• "Page view page image: long, and one 1/8 of an inch wide, it is obtuse, absolutely entire, veinless fleshy and gibbose; has no perceptable taste or smell, and no anamal appears to eat it by way of designating when I mention it hereafter I shall call it the fleshey leafed thorn. 1"
• "I looked down and saw the daintily domed instep; I looked up and saw the plump shoulders basing the spring of the round full neck -- which withered at half-height to the fluted shaft of a gibbose cranium."