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"text": "the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.",
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"text": "an incandescent bulb",
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"(obsolete) An onion."
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"word": "սոխուկ"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "鱗莖"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "sipuli"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "ბოლქვი"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
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"word": "Zwiebel"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
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"word": "בָּצָל"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "virághagyma"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
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"alt": "きゅうこん",
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "球根"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "알뿌리"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "bebawang"
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"roman": "kiḻaṅṅŭ",
"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "കിഴങ്ങ്"
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"sense": "bulb-shaped root",
"word": "tōpuku"
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"word": "ബൾബ്"
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"2": "grc",
"3": "βολβός",
"t": "plant with round swelling on underground stem"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bulbs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bulbing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bulbed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "bulbed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "bulb (third-person singular simple present bulbs, present participle bulbing, simple past and past participle bulbed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To take the shape of a bulb; to swell."
],
"links": [
[
"swell",
"swell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbʌlb/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈbʌb/",
"tags": [
"African-American-Vernacular-English",
"Southern-American-English",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌlb"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-bulb.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a0/En-us-bulb.ogg/En-us-bulb.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/En-us-bulb.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "bŭlb"
}
],
"word": "bulb"
}
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