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bul·bous

(bŭl′bəs)

adj.

1. Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base.

2. Botany Bearing bulbs or growing from a bulb.

bul′bous·ly adv.

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bulbous

(ˈbʌlbəs)

adj

1. shaped like a bulb; swollen; bulging

2. (Botany) growing from or bearing bulbs

ˈbulbously adv

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bul•bous

(ˈbʌl bəs)

adj.

1. bulb-shaped.

2. having or growing from bulbs.

[1570–80; < Latin bulbōsus. See bulb, -ous]

bul′bous•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	bulbous - shaped like a bulb bulblike, bulb-shaped circular, round - having a circular shape
	2.	bulbous - curving outward bellying, bulgy, protuberant, bulging, bellied protrusive - thrusting outward

bulbous

adjective bulging, rounded, swelling, swollen, bloated, convex his bulbous purple nose

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Translations

بَصَليِّ الشَّكْل

baňatýcibulovitý

kugleformetløgformet

knollig

bulbeux

gumós

hnúîlaga; òrútinn

bulboso

kuleformet løkformet pæreformet

baňatýcibuľovitý

şişkinsoğan gibi

球茎状的

bulbous

[ˈbʌlbəs] ADJ [shape] → bulboso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bulbous

[ˈbʌlbəs] adj → bulbeux/euse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bulbous

adj plant → knollig, Knollen-; (= bulb-shaped) growth etc → knotig, Knoten-; bulbous nose → Knollennase f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bulbous

[ˈbʌlbəs] adj → a forma di bulbo, bulboso/a

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bulb

(balb) noun

1. the ball-shaped part of the stem of certain plants, eg onions, tulips etc, from which their roots grow.

2. (also ˈlight bulb) a pear-shaped glass globe surrounding the element of an electric light.

3. the pear-shaped end of a thermometer.

ˈbulbous adjective

like a bulb, especially in shape. a bulbous nose.

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[*] I discovered eight varieties of antelope, with which I was previously totally unacquainted, and many new species of plants, for the most part of the bulbous tribe.--A.Q.

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This bulbous root is said to be of a delicious flavor, and highly nutritious.

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Bouton part of the inscription, yet the word rose, and the bulbous figure-head put together, sufficiently explained the whole to him.

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There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down.

All those strangled heads and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus growths just shriek with derision!

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The swede-field in which she and her companion were set hacking was a stretch of a hundred odd acres, in one patch, on the highest ground of the farm, rising above stony lanchets or lynchets--the outcrop of siliceous veins in the chalk formation, composed of myriads of loose white flints in bulbous, cusped, and phallic shapes.

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His red, bloated face, bleary eyes and bulbous nose bespoke the manner of his life; while his thick lips, the lower hanging large and flabby over his receding chin, indicated the base passions to which his life and been given.

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His bulbous nose was the size and shape of a turnip.

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