Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small bulblike structure produced in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil, and having the ability to develop into a new plant.
- noun A bulblet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bulblet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost exclusively: An aërial bulb or deciduous bud, produced in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated, of propagating the plant; -- called also
bulblet andbrood bud . - noun (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A bulb-shaped
bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French bulbille, diminutive of bulbe, bulb, from Latin bulbus; see bulb.]
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Examples
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A bulbil is a bud which becomes an independent plant before it commences to elongate; it is generally fleshy, somewhat after the manner of a bulb, hence its name.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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Have a marvelous day. ps If you have a few to spare, may I please have a bulbil!
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A swollen bud or bulbil in this situation is not uncommon in some cultivated tulips and lilies.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
deinonychus commented on the word bulbil
I love this sentence from Wikipedia: "A bulbil is a small bulb, and may also be called a bulblet, bulbet, or bulbel."
July 12, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word bulbil
Huh. I just got propago as a random word.
July 13, 2015