- of, shaped like, or having a bulb or bulbs
- growing from a bulb
Origin of bulbous
Classical Latin bulbosusbulbous
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bulbous
adjective
- Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base.
- Botany Bearing bulbs or growing from a bulb.
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- bul′bous·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more bulbous, superlative most bulbous)
- Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
- (of a person) Overweight and round in shape.
- (botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
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bulbous - Medical Definition
adj.
- Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base.
- Botany Bearing bulbs or growing from a bulb.
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Sentence Examples
- Bulbous plants are also very numerous.
- Beautiful bulbous plants, called mariposa lilies, requiring warm sheltered spots in rich gritty and well-drained soil.
- This mode of increase applies specially to bulbous plants, such as the lily and hyacinth, which produce little bulbs on the exterior round their base.
- Fritillus, a chess-board, so called from the chequered markings on the petals), a genus of hardy bulbous plants of the natural order Liliaceae, containing about 50 species widely distributed in the northern hemisphere.
- They are furnished with bulbous cupolas.
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