Definition of Bunchy

1. Adjective. Occurring close together in bunches or clusters.

Similar to: Concentrated
Derivative terms: Bunch

Definition of Bunchy

1. a. Swelling out in bunches.

Definition of Bunchy

1. Adjective. Having, or growing in bunches ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bunchy

1. clustered [adj BUNCHIER, BUNCHIEST] : BUNCHILY [adv]

Medical Definition of Bunchy

1. 1. Swelling out in bunches. "An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled." (Phaer) 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail. 3. Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunchy

buncha
bunchberries
bunchberry
bunched
bunches
bunches of fives
bunchflower
bunchier
bunchiest
bunchily
bunchiness
bunching
bunchings
bunchy (current term)
buncing
bunco
bunco-steerer
bunco-steerers
bunco game
buncoed
buncoing
buncombe
buncombes
buncos
bund
bunded
bunder
bunder boat

Literary usage of Bunchy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"Although struck through by Hopkins, 'whelmed once by branchy bunchy [hood]' in the first version of MS. 3 subsequently becomes far more poetically complex ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"howled bunchy; "me goin' for get fmn-fum : me will dead. ... And bunchy glided like a dark arrow from the presence of her mistress, to reappear in an ..."

3. Records of York Castle: Fortress, Court House, and Prison by Anthony William Twyford, Arthur Griffiths (1880)
"bunchy. By E. 0. PHILLIPS. Bryan and Katie. BY ANNETTE LYSTER. Oast Adrift: the Story of a Waif. ... By EC PHILLIPS, Author of "bunchy." Great and Small. ..."

4. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"... which extend nearly as far forward as the fore-part of the knee of the head, and are for the use of hauling down the fore-tack Bunch, or bunchy: a mine ..."

5. The Copper Handbook by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Harvey Weed (1910)
"Is very bunchy, but shows some excellent sto heavy copper and stamp rock. The Mass has openings on all of its copper-bearing beds, hoisted through the ..."

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