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Home Dictionary Name: bulb Page: 3Bulbel
A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants...
Bulbous
Having or containing bulbs or a bulb growing from bulbs bulblike in shape or structure...
Bulb
A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground usually below which is strictly a bud consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves and producing as it grows a stem above and roots below as in the onion tulip etc It differs from a corm in not being solid...
Crocus
A genus of iridaceous plants with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm Crocus vernus is one of the earliest of spring blooming flowers Crocus sativus produces the saffron and blossoms in the autumn...
droplight
An electric or gas light suspended from the ceiling by a flexible cord or tube allowing artificial light to be brought down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk a pendant also an electric light bulb in a small holder which can be held in the hand or hung from a hook and attached to a long electric cord allowing light to be brought close to work in dark areas of a room...
Fin keel
A projection downward from the keel of a yacht resembling in shape the fin of a fish though often with a cigar shaped bulb of lead at the bottom and generally made of metal Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water...
VerbarGanoidei
One of the subclasses of fishes They have an arterial cone and bulb spiral intestinal valve and the optic nerves united by a chiasma Many of the species are covered with bony plates or with ganoid scales others have cycloid scales...
Hot bulb
See Semi diesel below...
Dewar
A double walled glass vessel for holding liquid air liquid nitrogen etc having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat called also according to the particular shape Dewar bulb Dewar tube etc...
Inuloid
A substance resembling inulin found in the unripe bulbs of the dahlia...
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