[f. prec.] intr. a. To swell into a bulb-like or rounded form. b. To form a bulb-shaped root.
1681. Cotton, Wond. Peak (ed. 4), 11. Bulbing out in figure of a sphere.
1846. Hannam, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VII. II. 589. The turnips did not bulb well.
1886. M. K. Macmillan, Dagonet the Jester, ii. 73. By m’ life how sweetly bulbeth out the figure of Psyche as she looks into the lamp.
