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
Observations on the Treatment and Growth of Bulbous Plants; curious Facts respecting their Management; Directions for the Culture of the Guernsey Lily, &c. &c.
From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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