turgid in the PONS Dictionary

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During dormancy, the pseudo-bulbs will dehise, with the oldest ones being totally consumed, and the succulent leaves appearing to remain turgid and firm on the most recent pseudobulbs.
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The plants should not be watered during the winter rest or watered sparingly when they begin to shrink and wrinkle only enough to keep them turgid.
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Even now they play out like a turgid and rancid plague.
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The ground floor with arched windows is heavily rusticated and the upper storey is turgid with ornate details and statuary.
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Red, white, gold and black form the dominant colour field, in which the thick turgid strokes reconfigure.
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But let us not go back to turgid ways.
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A formidable hodge-podge, turgid and confused -- yet remarkably similar to the present work.
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The nuclear whorls are slightly nepionic, and shapelessly turgid, but the penultimate and body whorl are very well sculptured and defined, being acutely spirally bicarinate.
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At this point the cell is said to be turgid.
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No character deserved our sympathy in this turgid thriller and not one scene seemed natural.
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