bulb
The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
Other meanings
Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
A kind of
- stalk
Kinds of bulb
- onion
Related words
- bulbar
- bulbectomy
- wet bulb
- bulb horn
- bulbitis
- bulbless
- bulblet
- bulblike
- bulboid
- bulbophile
- bulby
- endbulb
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "βολβός" (plant with round swelling on underground stem).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bulb” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.