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bulb definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
n. 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.
v. i. To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Crossword clues for bulb

- A light globe
- A light-producing daffodil?
- Daffodil, eg
- Light globe
- Rounded thermometer end
- Source of light
- Storage organ of a tulip
- Tulip or daffodil


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