Bulb vs Tulipomania - What's the difference?
bulb | tulipomania |
Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
A light bulb.
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. .
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(nautical) a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
Enthusiasm for tulips, as in a period in the (Dutch Golden Age) during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.
* 1989 , Stanford M. Lyman, The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil , p. 250.
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As nouns the difference between bulb and tulipomania
is that bulb is any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end while tulipomania is enthusiasm for tulips, as in a period in the (dutch golden age) during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.As a verb bulb
is to take the shape of a bulb; to swell.bulb
English
Noun
(en noun)- the bulb of the aorta
- the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs .
Derived terms
* lampbulb * light bulb * flash bulb * tulip bulbAnagrams
*tulipomania
English
Noun
(-)- Certainly one of the best illustrations of the fantastic in the motley variety of items that avarice might seize for its own is the tulipomania that swept over the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
