| 单词 | gibbous wrasse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgibbous wrasse 2. Of persons and animals: Hunch-backed; having a hump. Of a part of the body: Hump-shaped. gibbous wrasse, a fish (see quot. 1769). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back hoveredc897 embossedc1430 bow-backed1470 crook-backed1477 courbe-backed1480 bunch-backed1519 hunchbacked1598 buncht-back1603 crouch-backed1606 hulch1611 hulch-backed1611 hulched1611 crouchback1627 camel-backed1631 huck-backed1631 hulchy1632 boss-backed1640 gibbous1646 huckle-backeda1652 hulck-backed1656 hunched1656 crump-backeda1661 humpbacked1681 humped1713 humpback1726 humptya1825 hunchy1841 bible-backed1857 crooked-backed1866 cyphotic1889 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 329 How Oxen in some Countries began and continue gibbous or bunch back'd? View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 150 A Camel passeth in the Latine proverb, either for gibbous and distorted, or for one that undertaketh a thing awkely or ungeenly. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 208 Gibbous Wrasse..of a very deep and elevated form, the back being vastly arched, and very sharp or ridged. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 266 His gibbous shoulders o'er his breast Contracted. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough v. 69 Is there of all your Kindred some who lack Vision direct, or have a gibbous Back? 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 559 Lommius asserts, after Hippocrates, that if a person become gibbous before puberty, in consequence of asthma, he dies. 1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. iv. 38 Shrivelled in his loins, he [William de Longchamp] had a gibbous chest [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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