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Bulb

noun

A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.

Electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity. Synonyms: electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb, lightbulb.

A rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end).

Anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop.

Lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; ('bulb' is an old term for medulla oblongata). Synonyms: medulla, medulla oblongata.

A rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ.

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... biting the bulb off, and the quicksilver flying down my throat, and running about inside me for ever ...

— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair

... solid matter is removed, also a vital phenomenon? Is not the conception of a pipe or a tube that forces semi-fluid matter along its hollow interior, by the contraction of its walls, quite beyond the reach of mechanics? The force is as mechanical as the squeezing of the bulb of a syringe by the hand, but in the case of the intestines, what does the squeezing? The ...

— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

... wall, the squalidness of the cubbyhole ceased to depress her. On the slab before her lay scattered the details of make-up, and crowded into one corner stood her open wardrobe trunk. A placard near a light-bulb read, "Please remember that YOU are here for a few days, but we are here all the time. Do not deface our home," and under that notice, probably tempted by it into irony, a former occupant had scrawled in huge ...

— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... dining-room and there met Presley and his father, who had been aroused as well by Annixter's clamour. Osterman was there, too, his bald head gleaming like a bulb of ivory in the light of the ...

— The Octopus • Frank Norris

... alone, my soul." And if the servant smashes three electric-light bulbs in three minutes, say to her: "How very inconsiderate and careless of you!" But say to yourself: "Don't hear it, my soul. Don't take fright at the pop of a light-bulb." ...

— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence

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