bulb

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Meaning

1. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
2. The medulla oblongata.
3. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
4. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
5. A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
6. (obsolete) An onion.

electric light

electric bulb

electric-light bulb

electric light bulb

glow lamp

lamp globe

esculent root

sound bow

bulbus

air collector

light globe

medullary bulb

Tubar

incandescent light bulb

bulbous plant

electric lamp

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌlb/

From Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

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