GIBBOSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gibbosity mean? 

• GIBBOSITY (noun)
  The noun GIBBOSITY has 1 sense:

1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

  Familiarity information: GIBBOSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIBBOSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling

Context example:

the bony excrescence between its horns

Hypernyms ("gibbosity" is a kind of...):

projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gibbosity"):

frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)

occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)

belly (a part that bulges deeply)

caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)

mogul (a bump on a ski slope)

nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)

snag (a sharp protuberance)

wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))

Derivation:

gibbous (characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column)