Ventricose
Ventricose is an adjective describing the condition of a mushroom, gastropod or plant that it is "swollen, distended, or inflated especially on one side".[1]
Mycology
In mycology, ventricose is a condition in which the cystidia, lamella or stipe of a mushroom is swollen in the middle.
Gastropods
In gastropods, if the shell of a snail is ventricose or subventricose, it means the whorl of the shell is swollen.
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gollark: No it's not.
gollark: The only thing the modem on there is for is, er, GPS I guess, and that only occasionally.
gollark: I mean, "to my neural [interface]" isn't even a meaningful concept, since rednet's the only thing which actually checks IDs and I don't use it.
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