Bulbous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base.
  • adj. Botany Bearing bulbs or growing from a bulb.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
  • adj. Overweight and round in shape.
  • adj. Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Producing or growing from bulbs: as, bulbous plants.
  • Pertaining to or resembling a bulb; swelling out; bulb-shaped.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. curving outward
  • adj. shaped like a bulb
  • Equivalent
    protrusive    circular    round   
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