English Dictionary
Definition of “bulbous”
bulbous (ˈbʌlbəs
)
Definitions
adjective
- shaped like a bulb; swollen; bulging
- growing from or bearing bulbs
Alternative Forms
ˈbulbously adverb
Usage examples
It glittered on the bulk of the dead Father; on his bulbous nose and in the knots of his beard.
Clive Barker, COLDHEART CANYON (2001)It formed part of what soon became the world's finest collection of bulbous plants, and of snowdrops especially.
Country Life (2005)GO OUT and buy your spring flowering bulbous plants but don't plant them until the soil is cool and moist.
The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2005)With his spindly frame, bulbous eyes and pallid complexion, Buscemi is about as far from the All-American archetype as Osama bin Laden.
Times, Sunday Times (2001)Its lack of long hair, its pronounced eye sockets, its prominent teeth, and its bulbous jaw make the skeletal form more obvious.
Carroll, John, Humanism - The Wreck of Western Culture (1993)
