How to pronounce bulb

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What bulb means

noun

Most people know bulb in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A round underground part that a plant grows from

In a sentence: In the fall, Rosa buried a tulip bulb so it would bloom in the spring.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Latin word bulbus, meaning a bulb or an onion. That came from a Greek word for a plant with a round swelling on its underground stem.

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