bulbiform

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/ˈbʌlbɪfɔːm/

adjective

Shaped like a bulb.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivebulbiform (comparative more bulbiform, superlative most bulbiform)

comparative more bulbiform · superlative most bulbiform

  1. Shaped like a bulb.

    Though there was to be no encounter with the Bol'shaia Igra that day, the shadow of the bulbiform envelope, and the menacing twinkle of gunmetal beneath it, nonetheless would persist well into the later moments of ground-recreation.

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 245

Origin

  1. Latinbulbus“bulb”
  2. Englishbulbiform

From Latin bulbus (“bulb”) + -form.

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APA

bulbiform. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bulbiform

MLA

“bulbiform.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bulbiform. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bulbiform,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bulbiform.

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