VENTRICOSE

ventricose. Ventricose, a. inflated, swelled as with air

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{ Ven″tri‐cose′ (?), Ven″tri‐cous (?), } a. [[NL. ventricosus, fr. L. venter belly.]] (Nat. Hist.) Swelling out on one side or unequally; bellied; ventricular; as, a ventricose corolla. Ventricose shell. (Zoöl.) (a) A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle. (b) A bivalve shell in which the valves are strongly convex.