gibosa

This is the 7265th most frequent Spanish word.


gibosa

Hunched or convex in shape; often used to describe a gibbous moon.


This sentence uses gibosa to describe the type of moon that is more than half illuminated but not quite full, a specific astronomical term.

La noche era clara y se veía una luna gibosa en el cielo.

The night was clear and a gibbous moon was visible in the sky.


In this context, giboso/a refers to something having a hump or a convex shape, here used figuratively to describe the turtle's shell.

La tortuga tenía un caparazón giboso que destacaba entre las demás.

The turtle had a humped shell that stood out among the others.


This example shows how giboso/a can describe an object's physical irregularity, indicating a curvature or bulge.

Noté que la madera era gibosa, no plana como parecía al principio.

I noticed that the wood was humpbacked, not flat as it seemed at first.