bulb mite

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noun

a widespread mite, Rhizaglophus eclinops, that tunnels in the bulbs of lilies and other plants

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Words nearby bulb mite

bulbiferous, bulbil, bulbitis, bulb keel, bulblet, bulb mite, bulbo-, bulbocavernosus, bulb of corpus spongiosum, bulb of eye, bulb of penis

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How to use bulb mite in a sentence

One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.
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The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.
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His bright idea turned out to be the incandescent light bulb, which he invented in 1880.
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Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb.
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How eagerly she looks forward to pay day, for that little mite means so much at home.
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One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
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To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
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Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.
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Them's ther very words I heered him say, 'n' I wuzn't ennythin' but a mite, but I didn't furgit it.
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Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.
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