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• s  characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
• s  (used of the moon) more than half full

• John McDonald has a comically gigantic gibbous nose.
• Classmate Lisa David explains the difference between a crescent and a gibbous moon -- a waxing gibbous, at that.
• A gibbous moon hung high in the Florida sky while the rising sun splashed the white rocket with golden rays.

• crookback
• crookbacked
• humped
• humpbacked
• hunchbacked
• kyphotic
• gibbose

News & Articles

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• Trifecta of Celestial Wonders in Next Week's Night Sky
  Saturn and the bright star Spica have been making a pretty pair in our evening skies recently. This week they will be joined by the waxing gibbous moon, making a perfect threesome. [More]
  June 13, 2013 - Scientific American
• Trifecta of Celestial Wonders Shines in This Week's Night Sky
  Saturn and the bright star Spica have been making a pretty pair in our evening skies recently. This week they will be joined by the waxing gibbous moon, making a perfect threesome.
  June 12, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• Moon joins Saturn and Spica for night sky trifecta
  By Geoff GahertySpace.comSaturn and the bright star Spica have been making a pretty pair in our evening skies recently. This week they will be joined by the waxing gibbous moon, making a perfect threesome.Next Monday evening, June 17, the moon will be nine days old and just to the right of Spica. On Tuesday evening, it will have moved to a position between the two, as shown in the graphic above ...
  June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS