Bulb
Definition of Bulb
Pronunciation: bŭlb | n. | 1. | (Bot.) A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid. | | 2. | (Anat.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta. | | 3. | An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc. | | 3. | a light bulb. | | v. i. | 1. | To take the shape of a bulb; to swell. |
Related Words
ball, balloon, bilge, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boll, bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, corm, dowel, ear, ellipsoid, flange, flap, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, prolate spheroid, radicle, radix, rhizome, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, root, rootstock, shoulder, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, tab, tap, taproot, tuber, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt
|
Browse
Buggy plow
Bugle
Bugle horn
Bugled
Bugler
Bugleweed
Bugloss
Bugwort
Buhl
Buhlbuhl
Buhrstone
Build
Builder
Building
buildup
Built
buirdly
Buke muslin
Bukshish
Bulau
-Bulb-
Bulb of a hair
Bulb of a tooth
Bulb of the eye
Bulb of the spinal cord
Bulbaceous
Bulbar
Bulbed
Bulbel
Bulbiferous
Bulbil
Bulblet
Bulbo-tuber
Bulbose
Bulbous
Bulbul
Bulbule
Bulchin
Bulge
Bulge hoop
Bulge ways
|