gibbosity
Americannoun
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the state of being gibbous
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biology a bulge or protuberance
Etymology
Origin of gibbosity
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French gibbosite < Medieval Latin gibbōsitāt- (stem of gibbōsitās ). See gibbous, -ity
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Even such quirks as Wolfe's penchant for recondite words like "gibbosity" and "usufructs" and for scrupulous vocabularies of all kinds are minutely documented.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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