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Bulb

noun

A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.

Electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity. Synonyms: electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb.

A rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end).

Anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop.

Lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; ('bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata). Synonyms: medulla, medulla oblongata.

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

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... before dinner and she wandered out into the corridors to explore the citadelle. A soldier stood upon a ladder changing the bulb ...

— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold

... three countries that are one in their love and appreciation of sport and adventure." The Hungarians have all the Anglo-American love of sport and adventure.* A glass combination of tube and flask, holding about three pints, with an orifice at each end and the bulb or flask near the upper orifice; the wine is sucked up into the flask with the breath, and when withdrawn from the cask the index finger is held over the lower orifice, from which the glasses are filled by ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens

... glanced up. Then Gregory threw his magazine on the floor. Ross got up and walked, limping slightly, to a wall locker. He pulled out the heavy, ungainly spacesuit and the big metal bulb of a headpiece. He carried them to his bunk ...

— Homesick • Lyn Venable

... axis is unbranched and ends in a flower, as, for instance, in the tulip, where scale-leaves, forming the underground bulb, green foliage-leaves and coloured floral leaves are borne on one and the same axis. Generally, flowers are formed only on shoots of a higher order, often only on the ultimate branches of a much branched ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various

... Occasionally these swords have, at the end of the tang, a disc with a perforated design of two dragons holding a ball, a decorative motive which already betrays Chinese origin. Other swords have pommels surmounted by a bulb set at an angle to the tang,*** and have been suspected to ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

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