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A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
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Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.
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Producing bulbs.
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A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
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Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
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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.
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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.
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Bulbous.
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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.
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Having a bulb; round-headed.
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Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
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A bitter principle extracted from the bulbs of the squill (Scilla), and probably consisting of a complex mixture of several substances.
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A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
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A small bulb; a bulblet.
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Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
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A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.
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To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
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Bulbous.
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The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
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Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis.
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