English words for 'fennel bulb'
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adj
adj
- Bulbous; rotund.
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Fertile; productive.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- lucrative
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- marked by great fruitfulness
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
noun
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
verb
prefix
noun
- The bulb of such a plant.
- the bulb of an onion plant
- bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
- Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
- (slang) Of a drug, an ounce.
- (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
- an aromatic flavorful vegetable
noun
- A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
- The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
- Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
- (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
- anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop
- electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (‘bulb’ is an old term for medulla oblongata)
- a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
- a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)
verb
noun
- having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
- bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
- an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
- A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
- A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
- A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
noun
verb
noun
- aromatic bulb used as seasoning
- bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
- A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
- (uncountable) A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.
verb
noun
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb
- moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves
- aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground
- (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
- (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
- (uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
- (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
- (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
noun
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- The planet Earth.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- (medicine) The eyeball.
- (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- an object with a spherical shape
- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
verb
noun
adj
- brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
- emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
- Of or relating to fluorescence.
- Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
- Vivid, as if fluorescing; neon.
- Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
noun
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
verb
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
noun
noun
- The bulb of such a plant.
- the bulb of an onion plant
- bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb
- A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
- Alternative letter-case form of Onion (“an inhabitant of Bermuda; a Bermudian”).
- Any of various plants, mostly of the genus Allium, that are more or less similar to Allium cepa.
- (slang) Of a drug, an ounce.
- (4chan slang, slang) Soy, particularly when used in compound words related to the soy boy stereotype.
- an aromatic flavorful vegetable
noun
- A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
- The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
- Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
- (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
- anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop
- electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (‘bulb’ is an old term for medulla oblongata)
- a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
- a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)
verb
noun
- having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
- bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant
- an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers
- A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
- A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
- A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
noun
verb
noun
- aromatic bulb used as seasoning
- bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
- A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.
- (uncountable) A preparation from Allium sativum used as a food ingredient or the flavor or other characteristics of such an ingredient.
verb
noun
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb
- moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves
- aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground
- (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
- (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
- (uncountable or countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
- (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
- (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
noun
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- The planet Earth.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- (medicine) The eyeball.
- (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- an object with a spherical shape
- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
verb
noun
adj
- brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
- emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
- Of or relating to fluorescence.
- Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
- Vivid, as if fluorescing; neon.
- Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
noun
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
verb
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
noun
adj
adj
- Bulbous; rotund.
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Fertile; productive.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- lucrative
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- marked by great fruitfulness
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
noun
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight