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Webster 1913 Edition


Gibbartas

Gib-bar′tas

,
Noun.
[Cf. Ar.
jebbār
giant; or L.
gibber
humpbacked: cf. F.
gibbar
.]
(Zool.)
One of several finback whales of the North Atlantic; – called also
Jupiter whale
.
[Written also
jubartas
,
gubertas
,
dubertus
.]