Bulbous vs Psykter - What's the difference?
bulbous | psykter |
Having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.
(of a person) Overweight and round in shape.
* 2002 , Michael Bracken, All White Girls (page 9)
(botany) Growing from a bulb or producing bulbs.
English refractory feminine rhymes
An Ancient Greek pot with a bulbous body set on a high, narrow foot, used as a wine cooler.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 27, author=Elisabetta Povoledo, title=Princeton to Return Disputed Art to Italy, work=New York Times
, passage=The psykter , attributed to the so-called Kleophrades Painter, and the loutrophoros, attributed to the legendary Darius Painter, will remain at the museum for four years as part of a research program in which both the Italian government and the museum will take part, the university said. }}
As an adjective bulbous
is having the shape of or resembling a bulb, bloated.As a noun psykter is
an ancient greek pot with a bulbous body set on a high, narrow foot, used as a wine cooler.bulbous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A neon cacophony hung only a few feet above their heads, the popping and buzzing of the lights only occasionally drowned out by the shouts of the barkers, bulbous men whose doughy fat strained at their sweat-stained t-shirts
psykter
English
(wikipedia psykter)Noun
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