Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a belly (of the kind indicated in composition): as, big-bellied; pot-bellied.
  • In botany, ventricose; swelling out in the middle.
  • In anatomy, having a swelling fleshy part, or belly, as a muscle.
  • Rounded; bulging.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective in combination Having some specific type of belly.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of belly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective curving outward
  • adjective having a belly; often used in combination

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