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Gibberellin - a plant hormone which got a lot of publlicity fifty years ago for growing very
large pumpkins, etc. I haven't heard it mentioned for a long time.
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gibbous
adj.
5ME < L gibbosus < gibba: see GIB16
1 protuberant; rounded and bulging
2 designating the moon, a planet, etc. in that phase in which more than half, but not all, of the face reflects sunlight to the earth: see MOON, illus.
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imbricate
adj. - overlapping; v.i. & t. be or make imbricate. imbrication, n.
intricacy. imbricative, adj.Formerly muscles stretched by development
of inguinal hernia were shortened to original length by imbrication.
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