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粒々粒粒
つぶつぶツブツブ (nokanji)
1. [n] [uk]
▶ grains
▶ lumps
▶ drops
▶ beads
▶ pulp
2. [adj-no,adv,adv-to,vs,vi] [uk]
▶ grainy
▶ bumpy
▶ coarse
▶ bubbly
▶ foamy
▶ lumpy

Conjugations


History:
6. A 2025-08-21 04:53:55  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Seems to work.
5. A* 2025-08-20 16:57:29  Sombrero1
  Refs:
Luminous

Sankoku's approach seems reasonable:
1. つぶつぶ⦅名⦆
多くのつぶ(の一つ一つ)。
2. つぶつぶ⦅副・自サ⦆
多くのつぶの形が感じられるようす。
「泡(あわ)は━流れました・━(と)した食感」

See also GendaiRK:
1.〘副〙〈-する〉粒立つさま。ぶつぶつ。「つぶつぶと泡が立つ」「つぶつぶした餡(あん)」
2. 粒状のもの。ぶつぶつ。「顔につぶつぶができる」

Iwakoku: 〘名ナノ・副[と]・ス自〙


Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ つぶつぶ  │ 285.613 │ 89.7% │
│ つぶつぶの │  22.307 │  7.0% │
│ つぶつぶし │   5.258 │  1.7% │
│ つぶつぶと │   4.223 │  1.3% │
│ つぶつぶな │   1.158 │  0.4% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
I don't think having it as one sense works. It can refer to physical grains or lumps, and to the sensation.
In the BCCWJ, result POSs are also separate, as 名詞-普通名詞-一般 or as 副詞.

There are also multiple archaic senses which I chose not to include here. Because I would either add all of them (6) or none.

Maybe like this?
  Diff:
@@ -19 +18,0 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
@@ -23 +22,17 @@
-<gloss>bumpiness</gloss>
+<gloss>drops</gloss>
+<gloss>beads</gloss>
+<gloss>pulp</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
+<pos>&adv;</pos>
+<pos>&adv-to;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
+<gloss>grainy</gloss>
+<gloss>bumpy</gloss>
+<gloss>coarse</gloss>
+<gloss>bubbly</gloss>
+<gloss>foamy</gloss>
+<gloss>lumpy</gloss>
4. A* 2025-08-17 02:17:45  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I think it's one sense.
  Diff:
@@ -13,6 +13,4 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<misc>&uk;</misc>
-<gloss>grains</gloss>
-<gloss>lumps</gloss>
-</sense>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ツブツブ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
+</r_ele>
@@ -23,2 +21,2 @@
-<gloss>granulated</gloss>
-<gloss>lumpy</gloss>
+<gloss>grains</gloss>
+<gloss>lumps</gloss>
3. A* 2025-08-16 23:54:39  Joe Murray
  Refs:
つぶつぶ	285613	68.4%
ツブツブ	64492	15.4%
粒々	67639	16.2%

adding uk
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
@@ -20,0 +22 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
2. A 2011-08-04 23:31:00  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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