[f. BULB sb. + -LET.] = BULBIL b.

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1842.  Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. § 3 (1880), 63. Bulblets are small aerial buds … which arise in the axils of the leaves of several plants.

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1870.  Bentley, Bot., 111. Called Aerial bulbs … or from their small size, bulbils or bulblets.

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