1
: having a bulb : growing from or bearing bulbs
2
: resembling a bulb especially in roundness
a bulbous nose
bulbously
adverb
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Add some texture to your look with these glittering bulbous hoops adorned with intricate glass crystals.
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Anika Ljung, WWD, 4 Sep. 2024
Where their radiating spines converge, urchins have delicate, bulbous skeletons with holes for wriggly tube feet and bumps where spines attach.
—Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
Valencia Pride mangoes are quite common in South Florida, but both trees have been devoid of much fruit this summer, and the mangoes that did grow were light green, firm and smaller than what the Ferrari family is used to, which is bulbous, sugary fruit.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
That’s immediately evident with the bulbous nose of Frank West and his stocky stature.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
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Anika Ljung, WWD, 4 Sep. 2024
Where their radiating spines converge, urchins have delicate, bulbous skeletons with holes for wriggly tube feet and bumps where spines attach.
—Lisa S. Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
Valencia Pride mangoes are quite common in South Florida, but both trees have been devoid of much fruit this summer, and the mangoes that did grow were light green, firm and smaller than what the Ferrari family is used to, which is bulbous, sugary fruit.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2024
That’s immediately evident with the bulbous nose of Frank West and his stocky stature.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
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bulbous
adjective
bul·bous
ˈbəl-bəs 
: resembling a bulb especially in roundness or the gross enlargement of a part
the bulbous expansion at the base of a hair
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