Definitions for bulb

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bulb bulb

Spelling: [buhlb]

IPA: /bʌlb/

Bulb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in bulb (bblu).

Definitions for bulb

noun

1. Botany. a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily. a plant growing from such a bud.
2. any round, enlarged part, especially at the end of a cylindrical object:
3. Electricity. the glass housing, in which a partial vacuum has been established, that contains the filament of an incandescent electric lamp. an incandescent or fluorescent electric lamp.
4. Anatomy. any of various small, bulb-shaped structures or protuberances:
5. medulla oblongata.
6. Building Trades. a rounded thickening at the toe of an angle iron or tee.
7. Nautical. a cylindrical or spherical prominence at the forefoot of certain vessels.
8. Photography. a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open as long as the shutter release is depressed. Symbol: B.

Origin of bulb

1560-70; Latin bulbus Greek bolbós onion, bulbous plant

Examples for bulb

So, at the Home Depot in Connecticut, a 40-watt bulb costs $4.97, and a  60-watt bulb costs $6.97.

Do you mean to say that the bulb has now been in the ground for six days?

In 25,000 hours a regular 75-watt bulb would use $262.50 of electricity.

By May, its bulb can grow as big as two centimeters, and turns pink and then a deep red as it matures.

The stem is white, squamulose, bulb rugulose, ring superior and entire.

And yet the bulb has not only an honourable character—it has a sort of sacred history.

Specifically, the law said a bulb should provide 100 watts of brightness while using 72 watts or less.

Amaryllis Formosissima was in bloom in one week after I planted the bulb.

I shall tell you the day when you are to put the bulb in the ground.

The 40-watt bulb costs $9.97 and the 60-watt bulb retails for $12.97.