It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— having a bulb : growing from or bearing bulbs
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Macmillan
— big and round, or shaped like an onion
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Usage
1 use of ‘bulbous’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle