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Definition of Bulbous plant
1. Noun. Plant growing from a bulb.
Generic synonyms: Tracheophyte, Vascular Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulbous Plant
Literary usage of Bulbous plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Gardener: Or, A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing, and by William Cobbett (1833)
"A bulbous plant from Portugal, which blows in June; its flowers are blue, ...
A little bulbous plant of great delicacy; grows seven or eight inches high, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"A beautiful bulbous plant 2 to 3 ft. high with large pale blue flowers. Also a
white variety. Centaurea.—Bold-habited composites of showy character; ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1837)
"A hardy bulbous plant; crowing two feet high; with purple (lowers; appearing In May
... A handsome bulbous plant, with an umbellate head of numerous large ..."
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