Bulb :: Bulb (n.) 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..

Bulb :: Bulb (n.) A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta..

Bulb :: Bulb (n.) 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..

Bulb :: Bulb (v. i.) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Bulbaceous :: Bulbaceous (n.) Bulbous.

Bulbar :: Bulbar (a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis..

Bulbed :: Bulbed (a.) Having a bulb; round-headed.

Bulbel :: Bulbel (n.) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

Bulbiferous :: Bulbiferous (n.) Producing bulbs.

Bulblet :: Bulblet (n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion..

Bulbo-tuber :: Bulbo-tuber (n.) A corm.

Bulbose :: Bulbose (a.) Bulbous.

Bulbous :: Bulbous (n.) Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure..

Bulbul :: Bulbul (n.) The Persian nightingale (Pycnonotus jocosus). The name is also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the family Timaliidae. The green bulbuls belong to the Chloropsis and allied genera..

Bulbule :: Bulbule (n.) A small bulb; a bulblet.

Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..

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