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ventral |
ventral fin |
ventral placentation |
ventrally |
ventricle |
ventricose
| ventricous
| ventricular
| ventricular aneurysm
| ventricular fibrillation
| ventricular fold
ventricose
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective ventricose has 1 sense
- ventricose(s = adj.all) ventricous - having a swelling on one side; "the ventricose gullet of an insect"
CIDE DICTIONARY
ventricose, a. [NL. ventricosus, fr. L. venter belly.].
Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ventricose, adj.
1 having a protruding belly.
2 Bot. distended, inflated.
1 having a protruding belly.
2 Bot. distended, inflated.
Etymology
irreg. f. VENTRICLE + -OSE(1)
ROGET THESAURUS
ventricose
Convexity
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).
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