bulbous

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His nose was red and bulbous, his eyes narrow-set beneath bushy red eyebrows.

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

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  • The moon is bulbous, the atmosphere noxious, and just ahead, beyond sight, lies a terror you wish you could fathom before the train moves on. —  Omni: September 1993
  • Its pistol-butt was bulbous, the size of a tennis ball. —  Asimov'sSF,February2008
  • The head is often bulbous -- anywhere from slightly to quite pronounced. —  open source sex
  • His nose was red and bulbous, his eyes narrow-set beneath bushy red eyebrows. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
  • "Perhaps that is the likeness of a mandarin--bulbous nose, hanging cheeks, moustaches drooping like plumes, a peaked head, knotty hands--a regular deformity. —  The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
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  1. = French bulbeux, from Latin bulbosus, from bulbus, bulb.
 

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