VEN'TRICOUS, adjective [Latin ventricosus, from venter, belly.] In botany, bellied; distended; swelling out in the middle; as a ventricous perianth.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
VEN'TRICOUS, adjective [Latin ventricosus, from venter, belly.] In botany, bellied; distended; swelling out in the middle; as a ventricous perianth.
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