Tumid Definition

to͝omĭd, tyo͝o-
adjective
Swollen; distended. Used of a body part or organ.
American Heritage Medicine
Swollen; bulging.
Webster's New World
Inflated or pompous.
Webster's New World

Cancerous, unhealthy.

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Origin of Tumid

  • Latin tumidus from tumēre to swell teuə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin tumidus (“swollen").

    From Wiktionary

Tumid Sentence Examples

  • There are some pleasing passages in Arnobius, but on the whole he is a tumid and a tedious author.

  • The leaves, which are borne in pairs at the tumid nodes, are oval in form and have a Dicotyledonous type of venation.

  • So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

  • The tentacles surround an area known as the peristome, in the middle of which there is an elongated mouth-opening surrounded by tumid lips.

  • In some species certain of the legs bear on their ventral sides furrows with tumid lips and lined by smooth non-tuberculate epithelium; they are called coxal organs, and it appears that they can be everted.

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