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a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end); "the bulb of a syringe"

electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated

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

a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end); "the bulb of a syringe"

electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated

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

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.

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

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.

To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

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.

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

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.

To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

An onion-shaped root; a kind of leaf bud; any swelling, or rounded portion of a stem or tube; a small globe containing an electric light.

Rounded enlargement of vessel or canal.

An onion-like root.

To form bulbs: to bulge out or swell.

BULBED, BULBOUS.

A ball-shaped root; a ball-shaped expansion.

A cluster of thickened leaves, growing usually underground.

A bulbous protuberance.

A part resembling a bulb; a specialized underground bud with thick fleshy leaves which afford it nourishment during development.

A name, given by anatomists to different parts which resemble, in shape, certain bulbous roots. The Bulb of the Aorta is the great sinus of the Aorta. Bulb of a Tooth; the vascular and nervous papilla contained in the cavity of a tooth. The Bulb or Root of the Hair is the part whence the hair originates. The Bulb of the Urethra is the dilated portion formed by the commencement of the Corpus spongiosum towards the root of the penis. We say, also, Bulb, for Globe, of the eye.

Any rounded mass.

The oblongata.

In general, any rounded, more or less spherical, or ovoid body, whether solid or hollow.

In botany, an abbreviated, more or less globular plant axis, enveloped above by an aggregation of fleshy leaves (a leaf bud) and bearing roots below, also a swollen portion of the pedicle of certain fungi

n. [Latin] A round or spherical body;—a bud or cluster of partially developed leaves, growing from a plant (usually below the ground), and producing a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion;—protuberance on a stem, as the bulb of a thermometer; a knob; a projection.

A round body, or root.