Noun: bulb
Sample Sentences
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the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs. [2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 265c:]
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Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on). [2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:]
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the bulb of the aorta
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an incandescent bulb
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an LED bulb
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a fluorescent tube bulb
Nouns inflected like bulb
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor.
3. Latin bulbusder.
4. English bulb
5. Inherited from Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”). See: Latin Nouns '
bulbus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βολβός'.
Verbs referencing "bulb"
Finnish Nouns
bulbi.