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bunchy, a.|ˈbʌnʃɪ|
[f. bunch n.1 + -y1.]
1. Bulging, protuberant; full of protuberances or swellings; humped.
1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. vii. lxiv. (1495) 280 The nayles ben boystouse and bounche [1582 bounchye] as they were scabbed. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. i. x. 9 The lyver is hollowe in the inwarde parte..and bounchye wythout. 1562Phaër æneid. ix. C civ, An vnshapen bunchy speare [rudem nodis hastam]. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 76 The fat in their [camels] bunchy back. 1873Besant & Rice Little Girl ii. xx. 185 Augustine, the fat, the bunchy, the smiling. Mod. Who is that with the bunchy skirts?
2. a. Like a bunch; having bunches or clusters.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 213 So as to hang..in a sort of bunchy festoon. 1833Tennyson Poems 72 Bowers Trellised with bunchy vine. 1852Rock Ch. Fathers III. i. 111 Those leaf-like bunchy finials..seem all too soft and light to be of stone.
b. Mining. (See quots.)
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 88 The Ore in this nidus is bunchy and uncertain. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 173 The surface often uneven and bunchy. 1849J. Weale Dict. Terms Archit. s.v. Bunch, A mine that is sometimes rich and at other times poor, is said to be bunchy. 1867Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) 504 s.v. Bunch, A lode is said to be bunchy when the metalliferous ore is found in irregular and sparsely distributed masses.
c. bunchy top, a virus disease of plants (esp. bananas) in which the leaves are crowded at the tip of the stem.
1919Agric. Gaz. N.S. Wales XXX. 809, I lately visited the Tweed River district..to investigate the disease known as ‘Bunchy Top’ in bananas. 1930Discovery June 196/1 Other important virus diseases of plants include, bunchy top of bananas, [etc.]. 1935Union S. Afr. Dept. Agric. Sci. Bull. CXXXIX. 46 (title) Further investigations on the bunchy-top disease of tomato. 1951New Biol. XI. 76 Bunchy Top Disease, a virus disease, transmitted by the banana aphid, Pentalonia nigronervosa. |