different between bulb vs garlics

English

Etymology

From Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?lb, IPA^(key): /b?lb/
• Rhymes: -?lb

Noun

bulb (plural bulbs)

1. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.

   the bulb of the aorta

2. A light bulb.
3. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 265c.

     the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.
4. (nautical) a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
5. (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.

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Translations

Verb

bulb (third-person singular simple present bulbs, present participle bulbing, simple past and past participle bulbed)

1. (intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Anagrams

• blub

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin bulbus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?bulp/

Noun

bulb m (plural bulbs)

1. (botany) bulb (bulb-shaped root of a plant)

Related terms

• bulbós

Further reading

• “bulb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French bulbe

Noun

bulb m (plural bulbi)

1. bulb

Declension

English

Noun

garlics

1. (rare) plural of garlic
   • 1997, Chester Aaron, The Great Garlic Book: A Guide with Recipes

     "For all these reasons, they are not a commercially viable crop, which means that just about the only garlics you have ever found available in your..."

Usage notes

• The word garlic is usually uncountable. The plural garlics is used only when referring to multiple cultivars or possibly multiple instances of bulbs of garlic.

Verb

garlics

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of garlic