Associations to the word «Ventricose»

Wiktionary

VENTRICOSE, adjective. Distended; corpulent
VENTRICOSE, adjective. (mycology) Broadest in the middle and tapering toward the ends

Dictionary definition

VENTRICOSE, adjective. Having a swelling on one side; "the ventricose gullet of an insect".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne