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bulbar |
bulbar conjunctiva |
bulbed |
bulbel |
bulbiferous |
bulbil
| bulblet
| bulblet bladder fern
| bulblet fern
| bulblike
| bulbo-tuber
bulbil
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bulbil has 1 sense
- bulbil(n = noun.plant) bulblet - small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers; Array is a kind of bulb
CIDE DICTIONARY
bulbil, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.].
- 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 . [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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