turgid
— Adjective
– English
～ abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
turgid
— Adjective
– English
～ ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
turgidity
— Noun
– English
～ pompously embellished language
turgidly
— Adverb
– English
～ in a turgid manner; "he lectured bombastically about his theories"
turgidness
— Noun
– English
～ pompously embellished language
Triticum turgidum
— Noun
– English
～ wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America
turgor
— Noun
– English
～ (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane
turgot
— Noun
– English
～ French economist who in 1774 was put in control of finances by Louis XVI; his proposals for reforms that involved abolishing feudal privileges made him unpopular with the aristocracy and in 1776 he was dismissed (1727-1781)