Bulbous Sentence Examples

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  • Bulbous plants are also very numerous.

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  • They are furnished with bulbous cupolas.

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  • Beautiful bulbous plants, called mariposa lilies, requiring warm sheltered spots in rich gritty and well-drained soil.

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  • This mode of increase applies specially to bulbous plants, such as the lily and hyacinth, which produce little bulbs on the exterior round their base.

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  • Uromyces Erythronii, a rust, sometimes causes considerable injury to the foliage of species of Lilium and other bulbous plants, forming large discoloured blotches on the leaves.

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  • Lovely bulbous plants called tiger flowers, useful in the warmest parts of the kingdom for the border in rich but gritty soil.

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  • Bulbous plants with a terminal racemose inflorescence; the anthers open introrsely and the capsule is loculicidal.

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  • They are bulbous plants, the slender stems of which support themselves by tendril-like prolongations of the tips of some of the narrow generally lanceolate leaves.

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  • Beautiful dwarf bulbous plants, thriving in well-worked sandy loam, or sandy peat.

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  • In this connexion it is noteworthy that so many of the higher forms are adapted as bulbous geophytes, or as aerophytes to special xerophilous conditions.

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  • In the spring there is an abundant herbaceous vegetation, including many bulbous plants, with genera, if not species, identical with those of the Syrian region, some of which extend to the Himalaya.

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  • Charming dwarf hardy bulbous plants of the liliaceous order, blooming in the early spring in company with Scilla sibirica, and of equally easy cultivation.

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  • The principal market products are cauliflower, cabbage, onions, asparagus, gherkins, cucumbers, beans, peas, &c. The principal flowers are hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, narcissus and other bulbous plants, the total export of which is estimated at over 200,000.

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  • When the true skin is inflamed various appearances may arise, according to the intensity and extent of the inflammation, and the eruption may be papular, vesicular, pustular, tubercular, bulbous or ulcerative.

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  • Forest patches are found in the kloofs and seaward sides of the mountains; willows often border the watercourses; heaths and bulbous plants are common in some areas.

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  • A few of the lower internodes may become enlarged and subglobular, forming nutriment-stores, and grasses so characterized are termed " bulbous " (Arrhenatherum, Poa bulbosa, &c.).

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  • The stem is 6-12 cm long with a slightly bulbous base.

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  • The Policy Adviser has recently become more bulbous than he likes.

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  • The characteristic plants are thorny and small leaved, or else bulbous.

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  • While discussing noses, he says that those with thick bulbous ends belong to persons who are insensitive, swinish; sharp-tipped belong to the irascible, those easily provoked, like dogs; rounded, large, obtuse noses to the magnanimous, the lion-like; slender hooked noses to the eagle-like, the noble but grasping; round-tipped retrousse noses to the luxurious, like barndoor fowl; noses with a very slight notch at the root belong to the impudent, the crow-like; while snub noses belong to persons of luxurious habits, whom he compares to deer; open nostrils are signs of passion, &c.

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  • The following is a select list of genera of miscellaneous decorative plants (orchids, palms and ferns excluded; climbers are denoted by *; bulbous and tuberous plants by f) Stove Plants.

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  • The following is a select list of genera of stove plants (climbers are denoted by *, bulbous and tuberous plants by f) Acalypha Achimenest Aeschynanthus Allamanda* Alocasiat Amaryllist Anthurium Aphelandra Aralia Ardisia Arisaemaf Aristolochia * Ataccia Begonia Bertolonia Bignonia* Bromeliads Cactus Caladium f Calathea Centropogon Cissus* Clerodendron * Crinumt Codiaeum (Croton) ORcftIDs.

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  • The bulbous headlamps and over-large bonnet air scoop put many customers off and sales fell by 30% .

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  • The rather bulbous top end tilts forward, providing an almost perfect handgrip.

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  • Au contraire - I spotted Serkis straight off - those wonderfully bulbous, heavily swagged eyes of his gave the game away.

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  • The herbs include pignut, adder's-tongue, ribwort plantain, and red clover with yellow rattle, bulbous buttercup and orchids.

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  • Cedric Gillings exhibited examples of the bulbous buttercup and for comparison, the much rarer hairy buttercup.

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  • Northern bottlenose whales are easily identifiable by their bulbous foreheads and can grow to eight meters in length.

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  • A hatch opened and several humanoids described as having " bulbous heads " and non-human in appearance exited the object.

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  • This is just off the scale of the normal bulbous aquarium hydrometers.

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  • This allows a narrow penetration peg to enter the leaf epidermis and colonize the tissue, later forming large bulbous infection hyphae.

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  • Head & Beak Square bulbous head (particularly in old males ), slightly protruding upper lip.

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  • Surprisingly we did find marsh marigold and bulbous buttercup in bloom.

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  • These are bulbous plants found in the northern hemisphere, being particularly numerous from southwest Asia to China.

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  • Skull has a notably long vault with a bulbous occipital bone.

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  • Among the land plants may be noted the blue anemone; the ranunculus along the road-sides, with a strong perfume of violets; the Malta heath, which flowers at all seasons; Cynomorium coccineum, the curious " Malta fungus," formerly so valued for medicinal purposes that a guard was set for its preservation under the rule of the Knights; the pheasant's-eye; three species of mallow and geranium; Oxalis cernua, a very troublesome imported weed; Lotus edulis; Scorpiurus subvillosa, wild and cultivated as forage; two species of the horseshoe-vetch; the opium poppy; the yellow and claret-coloured poppy; wild rose; Cartaegus azarolus, of which the fruit is delicious preserved; the ice-plant; squirting cucumber; many species of Umbelliferae; Labiatae, to which the spicy flavour of the honey (equal to that of Mt Hymettus) is ascribed; snapdragons; broom-rape; glass-wort; Salsola soda, which produces when burnt a considerable amount of alkali; there are fifteen species of orchids; the gladiolus and iris are also found; Urginia scilla, the medicinal squill, abounds with its large bulbous roots near the sea; seventeen species of sedges and seventy-seven grasses have been recorded.

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  • The first winter rains clothe the plain with verdure, and by the beginning of the year various bulbous plants are in bloom.

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  • It was a pleasant surprise to find that Lash Blast was packaged in a bulbous, bright orange tube.

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  • St Brunos Lily (Anthericum) - Bulbous plants of the Lily family, containing a few species hardy in this country.

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  • The plants are bulbous herbs, with flat or rounded radical leaves, and a central naked or leafy stem, bearing a head or umbel of small flowers, with a spreading or bell-shaped white, pink, red, yellow or blue perianth.

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  • The anterior third of the body is attenuated and sharply marked off from the bulbous trunk in Didymozoon.

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  • This is a half-hardy bulbous plant, producing in the spring a number of strap-shaped, dull green leaves, 1-12 ft.

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  • Braun devised a form of cathode ray tube, consisting of a vacuum tube having a narrow tubular portion and a bulbous end.

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  • Dutch Iris - A new race of bulbous Irises is known by this name.

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  • Flag (Iris) - Beautiful bulbous or tuberous plants numerous in kind and wonderfully varied in beauty.

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  • They may be conveniently divided into two classes-those with bulbous roots, which are now called Xiphions, and those (the greatest number) with creeping stems.

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  • These observations apply to the Spanish and English Irises as well as the rarer bulbous kinds.

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  • Scorpion Iris (Iris Alata) - A beautiful bulbous kind with fine large blossoms, the ground color delicate lilac-blue, with showy blotches of bright yellow, copiously spotted with a darker hue.

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  • Homeria Collina - A choice bulbous plant from the Cape, thriving in such light southern soils as suit Sparaxis, Ixia, and the like.

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  • Iris Heldreichi - A beautiful bulbous species allied to I. persica, and first known as I. stenophylla.

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  • Iris Histrioides - One of the most charming of the spring flowering bulbous Irises.

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  • Rush-leaved Flag (Iris Juncea) - A lovely bulbous Iris, graceful in habit and with bright yellow flowers of a delightful fragrance, whilst it can be grown almost as easily as the English Irises.

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  • Kaffir Lily (Schizostylis) - S. coccinea is a handsome bulbous plant from Kaffraria, with the habit of a Gladiolus, from 2 to 3 feet high.

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  • Korolkowia Sewerzowi - A singular-looking bulbous plant, allied to and much resembling a Fritillary.

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  • Milla - The bulbous plants formerly known under this name are now described under the name of Brodiaea.

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  • Mountain Spider-wort (Lloydia) - L. serotina is a small bulbous liliaceous plant, suitable for the cool parts of the rock garden, and not of the showy order of beauty.

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  • Scarlet Twinflower (Bravoa) - B. geminiflora is a pretty Mexican bulbous plant of the Amaryllis order.

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  • Sparaxis - Charming bulbous plants from the Cape of Good Hope, the many varieties coming chiefly from S. grandiflora and S. tricolor.

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  • Striped Squill (Puschkinia) - P. scilloides is one of the most beautiful of spring bulbous flowers.

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  • Tecophylaea - T. cyanocrocus is a beautiful spring-flowering bulbous plant from Chili, of dwarf growth, and bearing large open deep blue flowers.

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  • They are slender bulbous plants with narrow grassy leaves, and tall branching flower-stems, 1 to 4 feet high.

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  • The top portion that goes around the IR end is bulbous and is designed to absorb most of the impact since remotes that have flown from hands had that end smack against TVs.

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  • Having different glasses for lots of different types of wines is great, but those big bulbous Burgundy stems and those extra-tall Syrah stems quickly eat up your space, assuming you had any to fit them to begin with.

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  • And while a cabinet makes perfect sense, often stemware tends to be space hogs, especially those bulbous Burgundy ones.

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  • These juicers have a pointy, bulbous middle part and a glass dish to capture the juice.

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  • The trend lately has been to inflate large bulbous lawn ornaments each holiday season.

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  • A strange horse-like face atop a weirdly long and thick neck, bulbous eyes and a three-foot stature make him very hard to disguise.

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