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▸ noun:  The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
▸ noun:  (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
▸ noun:  Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
▸ noun:  A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
▸ noun:  (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An onion.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.






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