| 单词 | gibbosity |
| 释义 | gibbosity (once / 590966 pages) n WORD FAMILY gibbosity: gibbosities+/gibbous: gibbosity, gibbousness USAGE EXAMPLESBehind the neck and immediately above the shoulder rises a gibbosity or hump of the same height as the dorsal ridge. Sterndale, Robert Armitage, Natural History of the Mammalia of...(2010) Its caverns, its excrescences, its warts, its gibbosities, grimaced, so to speak, and grinned beneath the smoke. Hapgood, Isabel Florence, Les Misérables(2010) And Dominica draws nearer,—sharply massing her hills against the vast light in purple nodes and gibbosities and denticulations. Hearn, Lafcadio, Two Years in the French West Indies(2010) n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings Syn|Hypo|Hyper bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling frontal eminence either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit occipital protuberanceprominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone bellya part that bulges deeply caputa headlike protuberance on an organ or structure mogula bump on a ski slope nub, nubblea small lump or protuberance snaga sharp protuberance wartany small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) projection any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
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