单词 | bulb |
释义 | bulb/bʌlb /noun 1A rounded underground storage organ present in some plants, notably those of the lily family, consisting of a short stem surrounded by fleshy scale leaves or leaf bases, lying dormant over winter. Compare with corm, rhizome.Snowdrops hate having their roots disturbed, but dividing them in spring allows their roots to recover and gives the leaves time to feed the bulb before they become dormant later in summer....
Synonyms tuber, corm, rhizome 2 short for light bulb. 3An expanded part of a glass tube such as that forming the reservoir of a thermometer.It was a narrow glass tube with a bulb at the bottom....
3.1A hollow flexible container with an opening through which the air can be expelled by squeezing, such as that used to fill a syringe.Nicola took out a small medicine bottle with a bulb syringe, and began with delicate squeezes of the bulb to collect the moisture that gathered at the corners of the child's eyes....
3.2A spheroidal dilated part at the end of an anatomical structure.For the sense of smell, odors are processed in an area of the brain called the olfactory bulb....
OriginLate Middle English: via Latin from Greek bolbos 'onion, bulbous root'. |
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