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say it: buhlb
bulb is a noun meaning "a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure". It is pronounced /ˈbʌlb/ — buhlb. It carries 6 recorded senses.
electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)
“the bulb of a syringe”
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)
“the medulla oblongata is the most vital part of the brain because it contains centers controlling breathing and heart functioning”
a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bulb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.