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A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil.
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A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.
Examples of bulbils in a Sentence
It has long, narrow, flat, obscurely keeled leaves, a deciduous spathe, and a globose umbel of whitish flowers, among which are small bulbils.
Small tuberous shoots, comparable on a large scale with the bulbils of Lycopodium Selago, are occasionally produced in the axils of some of the persistent leaf-bases; these are characteristic of sickly plants, and serve as a means of vegetative reproduction.
The majority of these flowers will go on to produce bulbils rather than seed.
The aromatic, attractive flowers have many small bulbils in between them.
Strange seasons also produce strange results - I have never found stem bulbils on Frit aurea before.