- 2. Structure, edifice, erection, fabric, pile.
Build up. Establish, settle, preserve, increase, strengthen.
Build upon. Depend on, rest on, repose on, rely upon, calculate upon, reckon upon, count upon.
Bulb, n.
- 1. (Bot.) Scaly bud (like those of the onion and the tulip).
- 2. Protuberance.
Bulbous, a.
- 1. (Bot.) Like a bulb, having bulbs, bulb-like.
- 2. Round, roundish, protuberant, swelling out.
Bulbul, n. (Persian) nightingale (Pyconotus jocosus).