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Bunchy   Listen
adjective
Bunchy  adj.  
1.
Swelling out in bunches. "An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled."
2.
Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
3.
(Mining) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.





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"Bunchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... vegetable impurities injure the spinning qualities of the stock, for if a bur or other foreign substance becomes fastened in the strand of yarn while it is being spun, it either causes the thread to break or renders it bunchy and uneven. For removing burs, etc., from the wool two methods are pursued: the one purely mechanical, the other chemical, and known respectively as ...
— Textiles • William H. Dooley
... beneath the glare of chandeliers; he coughed noisily without any one taking notice of him, and seated himself in his place of last-comer at the end of the room. Divested of his accoutrements, he was now a tourist like any other, but of aspect more amiable, bald, barrel-bellied, his beard pointed and bunchy, his nose majestic, his eyebrows thick and ferocious, overhanging the glance of a ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet


Words linked to "Bunchy" :   concentrated, bunch


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