EGAVE

blob

About 0.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  2. noun The partially inflated air bag used as a trampoline in the sport of blobbing.
  3. noun A score of zero.
  4. noun A small freshwater fish, of the species Cottus bairdii; the miller's thumb.
  5. noun A bright yellow acellular slime mold, of the species Physarum polycephalum.
  6. noun A large cloud of gas. Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
  7. noun Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
  8. noun One who is a morbidly obese.

Similar words

blot stain fleck spot smear smudge splotch dollop blemish blur

Often followed by

of in is and on that or with data

Word family

blobbed blobbing blobs

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