Definitions for ventricose

ventricose ven·tri·cose

Spelling: [ven-tri-kohs]
IPA: /ˈvɛn trɪˌkoʊs/

Ventricose is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 907 anagrams from letters in ventricose (ceeinorstv).

Definitions for ventricose

adjective

  1. swollen, especially on one side or unequally; protuberant.
  2. having a large abdomen.

Origin of ventricose

From the New Latin word ventricōsus, dating back to 1750-60. See venter, -ic, -ose1

Examples for ventricose

ventricose: Having the whorls of the shell swollen or strongly convex.

Within these is the base of the tongue, under the form of a ventricose sack.

Cells pyriform, ventricose posteriorly, much attenuated at bottom.

The gills are almost free, ventricose, very broad, rust-colored.

Cells more or less pyriform, alate, narrow below, bulging or ventricose upwards.

The gills are nearly free, ventricose, crowded, dirty-grayish.

When it is elevated into a kind of ventricose cowl or hood which receives the head.

Cells urceolate, ventricose below, contracted towards the mouth.

The shell is ventricose, is closed or gapes slightly posteriorly, and has prominent subcentral umbones and an external ligament.

Most of the species are ventricose, and have regular radiating ribs.

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