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Definitions for Bulb

[1] Botany . a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily. a plant growing from such a bud.
[2] any round, enlarged part, especially at the end of a cylindrical object: the bulb of a thermometer.
[3] Electricity . the glass housing, in which a partial vacuum has been established, that contains the filament of an incandescent electric lamp. an incandescent or fluorescent electric lamp.
[4] Anatomy . any of various small, bulb-shaped structures or protuberances: olfactory bulb; bulb of urethra.
[5] medulla oblongata.
[6] Building Trades . a rounded thickening at the toe of an angle iron or tee.
[7] Nautical . a cylindrical or spherical prominence at the forefoot of certain vessels.
[8] Photography . a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open as long as the shutter release is depressed. Symbol : B
[9] a rounded organ of vegetative reproduction in plants such as the tulip and onion: a flattened stem bearing a central shoot surrounded by fleshy nutritive inner leaves and thin brown outer leaves Compare corm
[10] a plant, such as a hyacinth or daffodil, that grows from a bulb
[11] See light bulb
[12] a rounded part of an instrument such as a syringe or thermometer
[13] anatomy a rounded expansion of a cylindrical organ or part, such as the medulla oblongata
[14] Also called: bulbous bow a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence

Words related to Bulb

corn, knob, head, ball, swelling, globe, tumor, protuberance, nub, tuber, bunch, nodule, corm

Words nearby Bulb

bukkake, bukovina, bul, bul., bulawayo, bulb, bulb fly, bulb keel, bulb mite, bulb of corpus spongiosum, bulb of eye

Origin of Bulb

1560–70; < Latin bulbus < Greek bolbós onion, bulbous plant

Other words from Bulb

bulbed , adjective
bulb·less , adjective

Word origin for Bulb

C16: from Latin bulbus , from Greek bolbos onion

Synonyms for Bulb

corn, ball, bunch, corm, globe, head, knob, nodule, nub, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tumor