Within these is the base of the tongue, under the form of a ventricose sack.
They are ventricose when the cap is fully expanded.
When one extremity of the shell is attenuated, and the other becomes suddenly ventricose or globular, it is said to be Clavate.
Some species of Voluta, of a more elongated shape than the rest, present a near approach to the most ventricose of the Mitrae.
A genus of shells partly resembling Buccinum, and Terebra in general form, being more elongated than the former and more ventricose than the latter.
Distinguished from Fusus, by the comparative shortness of the basal channel, and the ventricoseor enlarged shape of the body whorl.
Antheridia in theventricose bases of spicate leaves.
Glumes more or less strongly compressed and carinate (ventricose in n.
Cells more or less pyriform, alate, narrow below, bulging or ventricose upwards.
The cells are ventricose below, and almost flask-shaped.
Cells urceolate; deeply emarginate posteriorly, entire in front, ventricose below; a small pedunculate infundibuliform process attached in front to the projecting portion of the rachis on a level with upper border of the cell.
It can be distinguished by its thinner caps, thinner and crowded gills, moreventricose and often slightly eroded at the edge.
The stem is very long, often eccentric, tapering downward, sometimes ventricose as in Figure 329, rooting quite deep, black below.
A species of about the same size as the last, but more ovate or ventricose in form.
It attains a size of from three to four inches, and is a rounded, globose, ventricose shell, with a higher spire than is usual in this genus.
Siphocampylos has the tube of the corolla ventricose in the middle, the segments of the upper lip long and curving over each other, and the lower lip very slightly lobed, with both the filaments and the anthers combined.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ventricose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bellied; goggle; goggled; swollen; tumid; turgid
