Image:Snowdrop Galanthus gracilis.jpg|thumb|right|Flowers growing from a bulb (lower left).
English

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-bulb.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
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1. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end
2. A light bulb
3. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

#* 2005, w:Plato|Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination|265c.
#*: the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.

Related terms
bulbous
light bulb
flash bulb
tulip bulb

Translations
trans-top|rounded solid object
Portuguese: t+|pt|bulbo|m
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light bulb
see light bulb

trans-top|bulb-shaped root
French: t-|fr|bulbe|m
Italian: t-|it|bulbo|m
Japanese: �根 (����� kyūkon
Korean: ��리 albburi
Polish: t-|pl|cebulka|f
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Portuguese: t+|pt|bulbo|m
Serbian: �ebuljica f
Slovene: �ebulica f
Spanish: t-|es|bulbo|m
Swedish: t+|sv|lök
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ttbc|Ido: bulbo
ttbc|Telugu: బల�బ� (balbu), ద�పమ�(dIpamu), బ�డ�డి (buDDi)

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