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gibbous moon

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gibbous moon [′jib·əs ′mün]
(astronomy)
The shape of the moon's visible surface when the sun is illuminating more than half of the side facing the earth.


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But this year, a waning gibbous moon, which turns full today, will hang low in the sky like a radiant lantern near Perseus.
It is inky dark, with fireflies flashing in the trees and a gibbous moon hanging over Venus.
 
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