gibb-, gibbo-, gibboso-

(Latin: hump, humpbacked)


gibbosity
1. The condition of having a humpback.
2. A hump or gibbus, as the deformity of Pott's disease.
gibbous
1. Humped; protuberant, swelling, or hunchbacked.
2. One reference is to the moon or a planet when the illuminated portion exceeds a semicircle, but is less than a circle.
3. Of persons and animals: Hunch-backed; having a hump. Of a part of the body: Hump-shaped.
gibbus
Hump; protuberance, swelling.