bulbil, bulblet
(noun) small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bulbil (plural bulbils)
(botany) A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil.
(anatomy) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.
Source: Wiktionary
Bulb"il, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: 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 and brood bud.
2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 June 2025
(noun) large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
