bulbs

Noun

bulb (plural bulbs)

1. The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
   • the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 265c
2. (dated) The medulla oblongata.
3. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
   • the bulb of the aorta
   1. A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
      • an incandescent bulb
4. A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
5. (obsolete) An onion.

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