bulbous
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Bulbous of nose, white of coif, gravelly of voice, Puri projects such a delicious air of gruffness and what-me? fake innocence that he threatens to flip the film into altogether more rueful and salty territory.
From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2014
Bulbous corpuscles are also known as Ruffini corpuscles, or type II cutaneous mechanoreceptors.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Bulbous corpuscles are also present in joint capsules, where they measure stretch in the components of the skeletal system within the joint.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Bulbous white sculptures hung in the blackness above the stages like clouds arrested in space.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2012
Bulbous, said of the enlarged lower end of the stem in some mushrooms.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
Vocabulary lists containing bulbous
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The Dragonet Prophecy
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The Maze Runner
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