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Meanings of bulbous in English

Curving outward.

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Shaped like a bulb.

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Examples for "bulblike"
Examples for "bulblike"
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The bulblike glass dome is like an enormous dewdrop of beautiful proportions and iridescent color.
The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition / A P...
1
After several metres, the tunnel widened into a bulb-shaped chamber.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
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The door linking the roundhouse to the stables was tall and strangely shaped, narrow with a bulb-shaped top like a keyhole.
A Fortress of Grey Ice
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'OK, Mud Boy,' said Mulch, scooping a bulb-shaped hollow With his flat fingers.
Artemis Fowl: the time paradox
Usage of bulbous in English
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It was new, a bulbous silver Audi that looked futuristic and fast.
Pandemonium
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Suppose you have before you the bulbous root of the lily plant.
The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3
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The nose had become bulbous and spongy, the eyes watery and weak.
The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
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The object in the water looked like a tire, shiny and bulbous-
Zeitoun
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The sky was a soft blue, bulbous with little puffs of cloud.
The Nine-Tenths
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The rear is a bulbous chunk of meat and bone, the heel.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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We find more to admire in sleek aerodynamics than in bulbous accretions.
Beauty
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Her eyelids were red and bulbous, like those of a crushed bug.
The sherlockian
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But the animal on Nicodemus's finger was now a bulbous, blackened corpse.
Spellwright
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Particularly one with old figs in it -darkfigs, bulbous and musty.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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The leading edge almost looked like the bulbous head of a whale.
The Fall of Reach
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He cocked his head at her, his hands on his bulbous hips.
Mine
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Both planes feature a bulbous nose and odd-looking bumps in the fuselage.
Wired
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Bin also sensed the bulbous right end of the stone emit faint vibrations.
Existence
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From a bulbous glass funnel, food is dropped down into a meat grinder.
Wired
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Another circle of light appeared on the bulbous end beside the first one.
Earth Afire
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