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noun. A short, modified, underground stem surrounded by usually fleshy modified leaves that contain stored food for the shoot within.

noun. A similar underground stem or root, such as a corm, rhizome, or tuber.

noun. A plant that grows from a bulb.

noun. A rounded projection or part.

noun. A light bulb.

noun. A rounded dilation or expansion of a canal, vessel, or organ.

To project or be protuberant.

noun. A form of the leaf-bud, usually subterranean, in which the stem is reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the under side, and bearing above closely appressed fleshy leaves.

noun. Any protuberance or expansion resembling a bulb, especially an expansion at the end of a stalk or long and slender body: as, the bulb of a thermometer; the bulb of the aorta.

noun. plural The tonsils.

intransitive verb. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

noun. 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.

noun. A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots.

noun. the eyeball.

noun. the “root,” or part whence the hair originates.

noun. the medulla oblongata, often called simply bulb.

noun. the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of the tooth.

noun. 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.

noun. a light bulb.

noun. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

noun. A light bulb.

noun. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

noun. a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.

verb. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

noun. lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (`bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata)

noun. electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity

noun. a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ

noun. a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)

noun. a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure

noun. anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop

"Only works if the bulb is actually "on", as in: plugged in or not burned out, The water keeps flowing, safe to drink or not."

arterial bulb  artery of the bulb  bulb of a hair  bulb of a tooth  bulb of the aorta  

bulbiferous  bulbil  bulbous  flash bulb  lampbulb  

anatomical structure  bodily structure  body structure  complex body part  electric lamp  

bead  beam  blossom  bottle  bud  

ball  balloon  bilge  bladder  blain  

lightbulb