1 (also light bulb) the glass part that fits into an electric lamp, etc. to give light when it is switched on:
a 60-watt bulb * a room lit by bare bulbs (= with no decorative cover)
2 the round underground part of some plants, shaped like an onion, that grows into a new plant every year:
daffodil bulbs * the bulb fields of Holland
3 an object shaped like a bulb, for example the end of a THERMOMETER
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