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bulbous

[buhl-buhs] / ˈbʌl bəs /


ADJECTIVE
jutting
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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 Irises:   Brevoortia Ida-Maia 75   I. Histrio 11   Brodi�a laxa 76   I. Bakeriana 12   Brodi�a ixioides 77   I. Kolpakowskyana 13 20.

From Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air by Weathers, John




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