bulbous

[US]/'bʌlbəs/
[UK]/'bʌlbəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. resembling a bulb, shaped like a bulb, growing in a bulb-like shape.

Phrases & Collocations

bulbous shape

bulbous growth

bulbous nose

bulbous plant

bulbous bow

Example Sentences

a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base.

its rounded, almost bulbous head.

A small bulbous plant (Chionodoxa luciliae) native to southwest Asia, Crete, and Cyprus, cultivated for its early-blooming blue flowers.

A temporal filcher is 6 feet tall with a baglike body from which protrudes a twisted horn, a thick neck, and a bulbous head.

13958681890 This ship shall be of all steel welded construction with one continuous deck, bulbous stern, bulbous bow, single propeller, single rudder, forecastle, poop, and of stern-engined type.

A bulbous plant(Zephyranthes atamasco) of the southeast United States, having a showy, solitary, white to pinkish flower on a long stalk.

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