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• (geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.From the entry toe
• Unabashed, the Killock tilted his head to one side in mock examination, puckering his bulbous nose.2005, Bill Hawkins, The Other Cockleshell Heroes, page 32. From the entry killock
• Bulbophiles definitely should consider experimenting with this unique approach to groundcover under their bulbous plants.1997, Charles Hardman, “Book Reviews”, in Herbertia, volume 52, page 203. From the entry bulbophile
• His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.1963 November 1, “Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly”, in Time. From the entry snootful
• They have a flexible bulbous body without a shell and eight long sucker-bearing tentacles.1951, Tracy I. Storer, General Zoology, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, ON; London: McGraw Hill, page 435. From the entry devilfish
• 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses.1908, Winston Churchill, Letter to his fianceé Clementine. From the entry cute
• The figure in the Work is slightly more bulbous, but it is instantly recognizable as a quotation mark.2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in…. From the entry recognizable
• The Commander's aim was off sending it messily over the back of the sensor officer's bulbous head instead.2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19. From the entry messily
• Cocozelle, which are mostly grown in Italy, are longer and thinner than zucchini and slightly bulbous at the flower end.2008, Russ Parsons, How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table, →ISBN. From the entry cocozelle
• Assistants help the actors dress and wrap the yards of starched undercloth which give many of the characters their bulbous shape.2003, Phillip Zarrilli, Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Come to Play. From the entry undercloth
• Finally, a man approaches her — an uncommonly fat, clownish-looking man, with a bulbous nose, furzy white hair, and fearsome great eyebrows like crushed mice.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 725. From the entry furzy
• This is a coy way of describing a bulbous false proboscis that makes Tom Mannion's visage look, shall we say, very well-hung.1992 September 26, Paul Taylor, “Theatre: Who're you looking at, Jacques?: Communicado's Glaswegian production of Rostand's Cyrano de…. From the entry wedding tackle
• Clad in yellow oilskins, and with a bulbous black helmet lodged on his grapefruit-sized head, he looked like a pencil I'd once owned.1992, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, Minerva, published 1993, →ISBN, page 370. From the entry skinnymalink
• The Acrocerids are very curious and characteristic flies on account of their small head, large, bulbous thorax, inflated abdomen and large thoracic squamulae.1907, William Lundbeck, Diptera Danica: Genera and Species of Flies Hitherto Found in Denmark, G.E.C. Gad, →OCLC. From the entry acrocerid
• That is the case with many bulbous plants, which throw off in this way secondary bulbs, which are lodged in the ground and become developed into plants.2022, Thomas Henry Huxley, Lectures and Essays. From the entry throw off
• The legs are of the heavy bulbous type common at this time, turned in the cup and cover form, and carved with nullings and acanthus leafwork.2013, Charles H. Hayward, English Furniture at a Glance. From the entry nulling
• The hardware component is a bulbous bar code scanner, dressed up in Any-Décor White and mounted on a countertop stand, an undercabinet bracket or a wall mount.2008 June 19, David Pogue, “Grocery Shopping Made Easy”, in New York Times. From the entry undercabinet
• There were a few unusual creatures, like the octopodian creature that slithered along upright on tentacles and regarded her with bulbous eyes that had stars for pupils.2007, Amia Kettier, Awakening, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry octopodian
• For the first time, finocchio, or Florence fennel, has performed for me as it should and has swollen out into bulbous protrusions at the base of its leaf stalks.1981, Country Life, volume 170, page 1,057. From the entry finocchio
• A similar phenomenon on a smaller scale occurs at Hole-in-the-Wall, where beds of orthoquartzite show large bulbous projections on their undersides which appear to squeeze out the underlying shale.1957, Keith A. W. Crook, “Cross-Stratification and Other Sedimentary Features of the Narrabeen Group”, in Proceedings of the Linnean…. From the entry orthoquartzite
• But some were straight and tall, some were squat and fairy-colored and others blossomed from thin stalks into impossibly bulbous, minareted domes, like long-stemmed tulips reproduced in stone.1954, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling. From the entry minareted

Meaning of bulbous

1. adjective Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
2. adjective Overweight and round in shape.
3. adjective Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.

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Questions about bulbous in a sentence

How do you use bulbous in a sentence?

Bulbous is used as an adjective. For example: “(geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.”

What is a short sentence with bulbous?

“(geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.”

What does bulbous mean?

Bulbous means having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.