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Home Dictionary Name: bulbBulbar
Of or pertaining to bulb especially in medicine pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord or medulla oblongata as bulbar paralysis...
Bulblet
A small bulb either produced on a larger bulb or on some aeumlrial part of a plant as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion...
Corm
A solid bulb shaped root as of the crocus See Bulb...
Bulbil
A small or secondary bulb hence now almost exclusively An aeumlrial bulb or deciduous bud produced in the leaf axils as in the tiger lily or relpacing the flowers as in some onions and capable when separated of propagating the plant called also bulblet and brood bud...
cryophorus
An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs connected by a tube of the same material and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor devoid of air The water is in one of the bulbs and freezes when the other is cooled below 32deg Fahr...
Lactometer
An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk as a measuring glass a specific gravity bulb or other apparatus...
Semi Diesel
Designating an internal combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition The fuel is sprayed into an iron box called a hot bulb or hot pot opening into the combustion chamber and heated for ignition by a blast lamp until the engine is running when it is ordinarily kept red hot by the heat of combustion...
Sego
A liliaceous plant Calochortus Nuttallii of Western North America and its edible bulb so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons...
Pyroscope
An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire or the cooling influence of bodies It is a differential thermometer having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf...
Psychrometer
An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer...
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