noun. A small bulb, especially one attached to a mature bulb or an underground stem.

noun. A bulbil.

noun. A little bulb; specifically, in botany, a small aërial bulb or bud with fleshy scales, growing in the axils of leaves, as in the tiger-lily, or taking the place of flower-buds, as in the common onion. Also bulbel, bulbil.

noun. A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

noun. A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb or on some aerial part of a plant.

noun. small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers

"It is one of our most graceful and delicate species, its long-tapering outline suggesting the bulblet bladder fern."

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