Meanings of bulbous root in English

Suppose you have before you the bulbous root of the lily plant.

It is a bulbous root, and when full grown, its leaves wither in July.

With the fish we boiled bulbous root and other vegetables.

This bulbous root is said to be of a delicious flavor, and highly nutritious.

The belillah is another important bulbous root, which also grows on lands subject to floods.

Timothy is a solid grass with a bulbous root.

Mr. Hawkins: The German is a bulbous root.

The Cocoa is a bulbous root of the size of a tea-cup, and has some similarity to the artichoke.

The bud or flower suggested the capital of the column; the stalk, the shaft; and the bulbous root, the pedestal.

The plant has a bulbous root, and in the month of April sends up its single, nodding, yellow spotted flowers.

The only moment at which Adresol, in its native conditions, is perfectly innocuous is in its dead season, when the bulbous root lies dormant.

The rain-doctor selects a particular bulbous root, pounds it, and administers a cold infusion to a sheep, which in five minutes afterward expires in convulsions.

Bulbous roots contain the embryon flower, seen by dissecting a tulip-root

Bulbous roots are propagated by offsets; some growing on the top, others around the sides.

Sometimes, too, they store food in their lodges, especially the bulbous roots of certain plants.

Nearly every kind of bulbous roots, if not previously planted, may now be put in the earth.