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Answer for the clue "Tulip, for example ", 4 letters:
bulb

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Word definitions for bulb in dictionaries

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n. a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure electric lamp consisting of a glass bulb containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated [syn: light bulb , lightbulb , ...

Usage examples of bulb.

She ached to be outside in the fresh air, to be dressed in her oldest jeans, turning over spades full of soft loamy earth, feeling the excitement and pleasure of siting the bulbs, of allowing her imagination to paint for her the colourful picture they would make in the spring, in their uniform beds set among lawn pathways and bordered by a long deep border of old-fashioned perennial plants.

If I had acriflavine, I could squirt it up your pipe in a bulb syringe.

Light bulbs concealed beneath the brick rim illuminated the arching water, which swirled up from the crystal pool like an aqueous ballerina.

As it tore down the autobahn toward Frankfurt, the bumping caused the heavy springs above the front wheels to retract slightly, crushing the small bulb between the jaws of the bomb trigger to fragments of glass.

He stood at the blackboard with a piece of chalk in his hand, a little bug-eyed man of forty-five with a big bulb of head growing out on the stem of his thin neck like an overripe spring onion, to give his talk on the fourth dimension.

There are books on the shelves, cans of beer and Cokes in the refrigerator, and a manually operated light bulb in the bathroom.

If the bulbs blew in the dunnies, Mr Cribbage would sigh with irritation and change them.

A fresh battery could drive the little bulb day and night for four days and, if necessary, could be sent up, now that they had widened the bottleneck and double dihedron, to be recharged from the pedal-driven magneto that kept their telephone battery fresh.

The dreamlet image walked across to the fading bulb and planted a kiss on it.

In the glittering electrolier wires mingled with pipes and bulbs with globes.

On the viewscreen they could see the shape of Equinox, about half the size of Voyager, engulfed in the fracturing bulb of her own shields.

If it was a torch or glow bulb, it probably meant that Clothahump had caught his famulus in the chemicals again and was chasing him around the tree.

So expert were the hunters at tracking, they could identify the individual footprints of each member of the clan, and their sharp eyes would easily have seen broken-off shoots or disturbed earth from dug-up bulbs or roots if she had gathered any food.

Migraine, Busted Chandelier, The Glob, Dim Bulb, The Behinds, Plankton, Flaming Sidewalks, Nuclear Teacup!

It would take hours to dig over a new patch, and she would have to transfer the goura bulbs she had planted earlier in the sandy patch.