Dictionaries › English

bulbil

The English word “bulbil” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil.
  2. A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.

Etymology

From Spanish bulbillo, from the diminutive form of Latin bulbus, from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “bulbil” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.