Usually means: Swollen and rounded in shape.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. bulbous: Merriam-Webster
  2. bulbous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bulbous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bulbous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bulbous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bulbous, bulbous: Wordnik
  7. bulbous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bulbous: Wiktionary
  9. bulbous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bulbous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bulbous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bulbous: Dictionary.com
  13. Bulbous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bulbous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bulbous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bulbous: Rhymezone
  17. Bulbous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bulbous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bulbous: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bulbous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bulbous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. bulbous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bulbous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bulbous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bulbous: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bulbous: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bulbous: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bulbous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
adjective:  (of a person) Overweight and round in shape.
adjective:  (botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.

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