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- 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 - n. - A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
- 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 - v. i. - To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
- Bulbaceous - n. - Bulbous.
- 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 - a. - Having a bulb; round-headed.
- Bulbel - n. - A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
- Bulbiferous - n. - Producing bulbs.
- 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 - n. - A corm.
- Bulbose - a. - Bulbous.
- Bulbous - n. - Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
- 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 - n. - A small bulb; a bulblet.
- Bulbel - n. - A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
- Bulb - n. - A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
- Retort - v. t. - A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
- Hubble-bubble - n. - A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.
- Pipette - n. - A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
- Crocus - n. - A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
- Pyroscope - n. - An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf.
- Onion - n. - A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.
- Bulbar - a. - Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
- Solid - a. - Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
- Staktometer - n. - A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette.
- Syringe - n. - A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
- Root - n. - The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
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