Bulbous

/ˈbʌlbəs/

Synonyms for "bulbous" (99 found)

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Adjective(7 words)

bulging protuberant bellied bellying bulb-shaped bulbaceous bulbiform

bagging baggy ballooning bellying billowing billowy bloated bosomy botanic botanical bulblike

Noun(2 words)

blobbed blobbing

Strong matches (30)

Adjective(5 words)

bulblike bulgy distended geophytic globose

bulbose bulging bumped bumpy bunched bunchy cereal distended ellipsoid ellipsoidal farinaceous fruitlike fruity global globate globe-shaped globed globelike globoid globose

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globular hemispheric herbaceous herbal herbose

Related words (49)

herbous herby hillocky hummocky leguminose leguminous moutonnee obovoid orb orbed orbic orbicular orbiculate orblike orby ovoid plantlike pneumatic potbellied pouching

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radicated radiciform radicular rhizoid rootlike rounded sphere-shaped spherelike spheric spheriform spheroid swelling tuberous vegetable vegetal vegetarian vegetational vegetative verrucated verrucose warty weedy

Adjective(6 words)

inflated protruding puffed rounded spherical swollen

Noun(1 words)

potbelly

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

appearance form shape state

More specific

5 entries

bulbous featurebulbous lumpbulbous nosebulbous protrusionbulbous swelling

Collocations

6 entries

bulbous endbulbous growthbulbous nosebulbous plantbulbous shapebulbous swelling

Inflections

2 entries

more bulbousmost bulbous

Derivations

3 entries

bulbosity bulbously bulbousness

similar

3 entries

circular protrusive round

Sample sentences

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The aliens had bulbous heads.

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A bulbous man sat at a table in the corner.

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He has a bulbous member.

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"What's that bulbous thing?" "It's a bulb."

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