meaning of bulb
1. 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. 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.
4. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
Related Words
bulb | bulbaceous | bulbar | bulbed | bulbel | bulbiferous | bulblet | bulbo-tuber | bulbose | bulbous | bulbul | bulbule |
