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Bulb [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A round body, applied to many objects. But in botany, it is appropriately a bud formed under ground, upon or near the roots of certain herbaceous plants, which are hence called bulbous plants, as the tulip, onion and lily. The bulb under ground is what the bud is upon the stem or branches, a hybernacle or winter receptacle of a future plant, containing the plant in embryo, covered with a bark or rind, generally consisting of scales placed over each other, to defend the tender rudiments of the plant from cold and other external injuries. A bulb is scaly in the lily, solid in the tulip, coated in the onion, and jointed in the tuberous moschatel.

Bulb [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bulb out is to project or be protuberant. [Little used.]

Bulb [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Bulb [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Bulbaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bulbous. [I believe, not used.]

Bulbaceous [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bulbous.

Bulbar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.

Bulbed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Round headed.

Bulbed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a bulb; round-headed.

Bulbel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

Bulbiferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Producing bulbs; as bulbiferous stems.

Bulbiferous [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Producing bulbs.

Bulblet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A corm.

Bulbose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bulbous.

Bulbous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Containing bulbs or a bulb; growing from bulbs; round or roundish.

2. Containing a knob, or protuberant part; swelling out; presenting rounded elevations.

Bulbous [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.

Bulbul [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small bulb; a bulblet.