bulb
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bulb/bʌlb/
▶noun
- 1 a rounded underground storage organ present in lilies and some other plants, consisting of a short stem surrounded by fleshy leaf bases and lying dormant over winter.
- 2 short for light bulb.
- 3 an expanded or rounded part at the end of something.
- 4 a hollow container from which air can be expelled by squeezing, used to fill a syringe, pipette, etc.
– origin ME: via L. from Gk bolbos ‘onion, bulbous root’.
'bulb' also found in these Oxford entries:
bayonet
- bulbil
- bulbous
- clove
- dropper
- dry bulb
- filament
- flashbulb
- garlic
- hourglass
- lantern
- leek
- light bulb
- onion
- onion set
- pipette
- plant
- psychrometer
- saving
- scale leaf
- set
- shallot
- socket
- spring onion
- squill
- syringe
- teat
- tuberose
- tunic
- tunicate
- unshaded
- wet bulb
