bunchedadj.
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b. bunched up, out: (of a dress) gathered into a bunch; also of other things than a dress.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back
hoveredc897
embossedc1430
bow-backed1470
crook-backed1477
courbe-backed1480
bunch-backed1519
hunchbacked1598
buncht-back1603
crouch-backed1606
hulch1611
hulch-backed1611
hulched1611
crouchback1627
camel-backed1631
huck-backed1631
hulchy1632
boss-backed1640
gibbous1646
huckle-backeda1652
hulck-backed1656
hunched1656
crump-backeda1661
humpbacked1681
humped1713
humpback1726
humptya1825
hunchy1841
bible-backed1857
crooked-backed1866
cyphotic1889
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 18299 The bo[n]ch..with whiche this folke relygious bene ybonchyd.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 19v (margin) The vse of the swelled or bounched parte of the first Vertebre.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 34 Those disciples who counterfeited to be..buncht backe like their master Plato.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. iii. 44 A Bunched Line is that which is carried with round reflections or bowings vp and downe.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xix. 307 His back was bunch'd.
1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 532/1 Children with bunched-out gowns.
1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 62 A bunched-up deer, its four little feet Clustered dead.
1934 Burlington Mag. Mar. 128/1 A wild movement of bunched-up draperies.
1959 D. Davie Forests of Lithuania iv. 42 And a knot Of bunched-up mosses.
d. Botany. Having convex protuberances.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > protuberance or lump > [adjective] > having protuberances
knoppy1562
gouty1597
warted1681
grumous1688
bunched1776
papulose1776
pustular1792
papulous1797
verrucose1802
grained1818
nodulated1824
verrucous1828
graniform1830
pustulatous moss1856
papuliferous1857
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 378 Fascicularis, bunched.
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Bunched, gibbous.
e. Clustered, gathered into a bunch or bunches. Cf. bunch v.2 2.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > bunched
louked1513
bunched1904
bunched up, out1917
1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 42 The ground is thick with the bunched stars of a wee blue gentian.
1964 Economist 14 Nov. 737/2 ‘Bunched gains’—heavy realisations coming together in one year that would jack up the applicable rate of tax.
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