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bulbheaded

bulbheaded adjective: having a head shaped like or resembling a bulb.

Adjective

bulbheaded

  1. (uncommon) Having a head shaped like or resembling a bulb.
    • He used a bulbheaded pier which has a section like a figure 8, or in other words, his pier has a bulbhead sticking out of the pier to the upstream of the flow.1973, Asian Institute of Technology, International Association for Hydraulic Research. Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Unesco (contributors)...
    • her bulbheaded cane from darkcontinent, my phallic symbol.1999, David Rothenberg, Marta Ulvaeus (editors), The New Earth Reader - The Best of Terra Nova, page 219

Origin of bulbheaded

From bulb + headed or bulbhead + -ed.

Questions about bulbheaded

What does bulbheaded mean?
Bulbheaded means having a head shaped like or resembling a bulb.
What part of speech is bulbheaded?
Bulbheaded is an adjective.

Words near bulbheaded in the dictionary

  1. bulbel
  2. bulbels
  3. bulbfield
  4. bulbfields
  5. bulbhead
  6. bulbheaded
  7. bulbheads
  8. bulbhorn
  9. bulbhorns
  10. bulbi
  11. bulbi oculi

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