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billowy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective billowy has 1 sense
- billowy(s = adj.all) billowing, surging - characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves" Derived form noun billow1
CIDE DICTIONARY
billowy, a.
Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. [1913 Webster]
"And whitening down the many-tinctured stream,
Descends the billowy foam." [1913 Webster]
Descends the billowy foam." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
billowy
bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellying, bent, billowing, bloated, bosomy, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, curvaceous, curvate, curvated, curve, curved, curvesome, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, curving, curvy, distended, geosynclinal, hillocky, hummocky, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, incurving, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, moutonnee, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, recurvate, recurvated, recurved, recurving, rolling, rounded, serpentine, sinuous, surgy, swelling, tortuous, undulant, undulate, undulated, undulating, undulative, undulatory, verrucated, verrucose, warty, wavy
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