Etymology

bulbus

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Today it means: Bulb (e.g., flower bulb, body part). Full definition →

Latin bulbus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing frombulbus“bulb”
  2. English todaybulbus

Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb”).

Words from the same roots

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