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melon-bulb

American  
[mel-uhn-buhlb] / ˈmɛl ənˌbʌlb /

noun

Furniture.

  1. a large, bulbous turning, sometimes with surface carving, found especially on the legs and posts of Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture.

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