a. rare. [See -OUS.] = VENTRICOSE a., in various senses.
1702. Baynard, Cold Baths (1709), II. 341. Such Children … are usually ventricous, and not so agil and nimble as other Children.
1828–32. Webster, Ventricous, in botany, bellied; distended; swelling out in the middle; as, a ventricous perianth.
1850. Ogilvie, Ventricous,… in conchology, applied to shells which are inflated, or which swell in the middle.
