Definition of "bulbous" [bulb•ous]

• Resembling a bulb in shape; rounded or swollen: a bulbous nose; a bulbous stem base. (adjective)
• Botany Bearing bulbs or growing from a bulb. (adjective)

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• "Octopus Studios 'tropical/freshwater fish-tanks assembles into a kind of fishy habitrail, wherein bulbous spheres of water are connected by diagonal tubes."
• "The same occurs in bulbous rooted plants raised from seed; they die annually, and produce others rather more perfect than the parent for several years, and then produce sexual flowers."
• "But Mr. Ferry seemed pleased at the prospect, though not by the glasses that Mr. Narváez produced, which Mr. Ferry called "bulbous.""