Meanings
comparative more bulbiform · superlative most bulbiform
- 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
- Latinbulbus“bulb”
- Englishbulbiform
From Latin bulbus (“bulb”) + -form.
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