Sentence example with the word 'tumid'

tumid

aureate, bug-eyed, edematous, fat, gassy, inflated, pompous, puffy, stuffy, tumorous, windy

Definition adj. ostentatiously lofty in style

Last update: August 27, 2015


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Nevertheless, the Nubian type remains essentially negro, being characterized by a very dark complexion, varying from a mahogany brown and deep bronze to an almost black shade, with tumid lips, large black animated eyes, doli-chocephalic head (index 73, 72), hair often woolly or strongly frizzled, and scant beard worn under the chin like the figures of the fugitives (Uaua?) in the battle-pieces sculptured on the walls of the Egyptian temples.   [Please select]

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Tumescence: a swelling or tumid enlargement: a puffed up area.   [Please select]

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Bill black, with tumid, fleshy covering; feet red; two middle tail feathers longest; all others banded with black and tipped with ashy white.   [Please select]

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_ Cephalic crest low, depressed, setiferous; labrum tumid; labial lobes oval, contiguous; antennal sheaths ending opposite the base of the wing.   [Please select]

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But there is a genuine feeling, an ungrudging warmth of sympathetic recognition underlying the trite and tumid panegyric.   [Please select]

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_ Shell coniform, broad; aperture effuse, tumid callosity on the inner lip large, and spreading over the spire.   [Please select]

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Bodies hard, tumid head and belly hot, evidently much pain in body; ears and feet icy cold; nose hard and thick, pus in it; fæces not noticed.   [Please select]

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Shell cylindrical, polished, spire conic acuminated, very short; outer lip simple, inner lip thickened, tumid, columella with numerous slender plaits, aperture at the base truncatedly emarginate.   [Please select]

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