bulbo

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulbo/

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• Rhymes: -ulbo
• Syllabification: bul‧bo

bulbo (accusative singular bulbon, plural bulboj, accusative plural bulbojn)

1. bulb (of a plant, e.g. of an onion or tulip).
2. onion (see also cepo)

• “bulbo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “bulbo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

bulbo m (plural bulbos)

1. bulb (of a plant)

Borrowed from Latin bulbus, from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.bo/
• Rhymes: -ulbo
• Hyphenation: bùl‧bo

bulbo m (plural bulbi)

1. bulb
2. ball, globe
3. light bulb, light globe
4. breakwater ((nautical) a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship)

• bulbifero
• bulbiforme
• bulbillo
• bulbo oculare
• bulboso

bulbō

1. dative/ablative singular of bulbus

Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

• Hyphenation: bul‧bo

bulbo m (plural bulbos)

1. bulb (object that is spherical at one end and tapering at the other)
   1. (botany) bulb (bulb-shaped root portion of a plant)

      Synonym: bolbo

   2. the glass envelope of a light bulb

• bulboso

• “bulbo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bulbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulbo/ [ˈbul.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ulbo
• Syllabification: bul‧bo

bulbo m (plural bulbos)

1. (botany) bulb
2. (electronics) vacuum tube

• “bulbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025