Crossword-Solution: BULB 4 letters, 179 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Bulb	n.	A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.
Bulb	n.	A name given to some parts that resemble in shape certain bulbous roots; as, the bulb of the aorta.
Bulb	n.	An expansion or protuberance on a stem or tube, as the bulb of a thermometer, which may be of any form, as spherical, cylindrical, curved, etc.
Bulb	v. i.	To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BULB	anagram	BLUB

We have 179 clues for the answer “BULB”

Clue	Answers
"He's a dim ___"	1 answer
"How many crossword solvers does it take to screw in a light ___?"	1 answer
*Replaceable part of a lamp	1 answer
Plant part that grows underground and stores nutrients	1 answer
An onion is one	1 answer
Annual groundbreaker	1 answer
Bright idea emoji	1 answer
Burnout victim	1 answer
Cartoonist's idea?	1 answer
Chandelier insert	1 answer
Chives feature	1 answer
Closed-up tulip	1 answer
Cluster of cloves	1 answer
Daffodil source	1 answer
Daffodil-to-be	1 answer
Eg, onion	1 answer
Electric lamp	1 answer
Eventual tulip	1 answer
Eyedropper end	1 answer
Eyedropper extremity	1 answer
Eyedropper part	1 answer
Filament container	1 answer
Filament housing	1 answer
Fixture insert	1 answer
Flower bed planting	1 answer
Flower starter, often	1 answer
Future fritillary	1 answer
Future hyacinth or tulip	1 answer
Future lily	1 answer
Future tulip	1 answer
Future tulip or onion	1 answer
Garden specialty.	1 answer
Garlic or tulip unit	1 answer
Germ of a geranium	1 answer
Glowing object on a marquee	1 answer
Good idea, symbolically	1 answer
Hardware store or nursery purchase	1 answer
Head of garlic	1 answer
Hyacinth-to-be.	1 answer
Idea symbol	1 answer
Implement with an "Edison screw"	1 answer
Iris's base	1 answer
Iris, for one	1 answer
It may be dim	1 answer
It may be screwed up	1 answer
It may have 40, 60 or 75 watts	1 answer
It screws into a light fixture	1 answer
It'll light up a room	1 answer
It's often screwed up	1 answer
It's used in a flash	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EETAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BULB (5)

The projected image reinforces the sensory hallucination." "Now imagine a visual field, currently it's done with goggles, that creates real life pictures, in real time and interacts with your movements." Scott's light bulb went off.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Then we came down by moonlight, and, when we reached the wood trail where it was dark, by the light of an electric bulb that he had in his pocket.

Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008

The bulb of one of these tubes communicates, by means of a net-work of cotton, with a glass reservoir of water attached to the back of the scale.

The History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry H. Snelling 2008

Before blackening the fire with a stoking of coal he pulled up a wooden Bushmills box, turned off the electric bulb overhead, and sat there for a final pipe, watching the rosy shine of the grate.

The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008

Only the very last fall I went to move some tulips, when I found every bulb upside down, and the stems crooked round.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

Quotes with BULB (3)

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

Lucy Grealy

. . . waves of desert heat . . . I must’ve passed out, because when I woke up I was shivering and stars wheeled above a purple horizon. . . . Then the sun came up, casting long shadows. . . . I heard a vehicle coming. Something coming from far away, gradually growing louder. There was the sound of an engine, rocks under tires. . . . Finally it reached me, the door opened, and Dirk Bickle stepped out. . . .But anyway so Bickle said, “Miracles, Luke. Miracles were once the mean…

Ryan Boudinot Blueprints of the Afterlife

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 196 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).