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2006-12-14 13:08:52 · 4 answers · asked by tweety 1 in Home & Garden Garden & Landscape

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since this is a question
under the garden & lanscape category,the answer would be a bulb is the swollen underground stem of a plant,with modified leaves ,it is basically a storage organ supplying nutrition to the new plant that developes from it in the next growing season .examples would be tulip,daffodils,crocuses etc,vegetable example would be onions.

2006-12-14 17:30:52 · answer #1 · answered by dee k 6 · 0 0

Do you mean bulb?
bulb

bulb [bulb]
(plural bulbs)
n
1. See light bulb
2. underground plant part: any underground plant storage organ, for example, a corm, tuber, or rhizome, from which a new plant grows every year
3. plant growing from bulb: a plant that develops from a bulb or other underground storage organ, for example, a tulip or crocus
4. rounded part: a rounded part of something, for example, the mercury reservoir of a thermometer or the squeezable rubber ball on a dropper
5. rounded part of body organ: a rounded or enlarged section of a cylindrical body part


[Mid-16th century. Via Latin bulbus from Greek bolbos “bulbous root, onion.”]
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2006-12-14 13:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0 0

A bulb is an underground vertical shoot that has modified leaves (or thickened leaf bases) that is used as food storage organs by a dormant plant. Other types of storage organs (such as corms, rhizomes, and tubers) are sometimes erroneously referred to as bulbs. ..........

I found this answer somewhere for a test i did last year ....

2006-12-14 13:39:33 · answer #3 · answered by Magpie 2 · 0 0

a flower seed

2006-12-14 13:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by vickey417 2 · 0 0

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