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What does gibbous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gibbous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
  2. (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
  3. Humpbacked.
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The open doors to the garden let in the hard white light of the gibbous moon, and the heady smell of night-blooming flowers.
My hand was clasped around hers, and the light of the gibbous moon set a silver path out before us.
The waxing gibbous moon was still behind the scudding clouds, but it was far from pitch dark.
She set off through the dark, silent woods, as the gibbous moon surfaced from its sea of clouds.
The rising gibbous moon was ghostly from New Jersey, but by the Manhattan evening it was sharp and bright.
The gibbous moon rides low across the southern sky these evenings, and for the next few days it is crossing the constellation of Scorpius.

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