bigroot (bigrot)

The name in California of species of Megarrhiza, a cucurbitaceous vine the roots of which grow to an immense size. big-sounding (big' soun" ding), a. Having a pompous sound. Big - sounding sentences and words of state. Bp. Hall, Satires, i. 3. big-swollen, big-swoln (big'swō"len, -swõln), a. Greatly inflated; swelled to great bulk; turgid; ready to burst. My big - swoln heart. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2. biguttate (bi-gut'at), a. [ guttate .] In zoöl . , marked with two small spots.