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BULBILLE [6 records]

Record 1 2015-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

Reproductive portion of a plant, such as a seed, fruit or fragment of fruit, that is dispersed and may give rise to a new plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Partie [d’une plante, issue] de l’appareil végétatif ou de l’appareil reproducteur [qui sert à la dispersion de celle-ci et qui est] susceptible d’engendrer un nouvel individu.

OBS

Les structures ou unités telles que le propagule, le bourgeon, le bulbille, la spore, la graine, etc. sont des diaspores.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Bulbille qui se développe sur un bulbe.

CONT

Caïeu de tulipe, d’ail.

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
CONT

Bulbil, used as a general term, refers to any small, bulblike offset from a parent plant. Bulbils are typically swollen with reserve food materials and may be derived from modified roots or stems or compact clusters of modified leaves. Each bulbil may produce a new plant. Bulbils may be produced above ground on flowering stems in place of flowers and where leaves join the stem. Below ground, bulbils may be formed at the tips of underground stems or roots or at the base of a bulbous parent plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Sortes de bourgeons formés d’un axe renflé entouré de feuilles imbriquées, le tout riche en réserves. Naissent à l’aisselle des feuilles aux dépens d’un bourgeon axillaire (Ficaria), à la place des fleurs (Allium, Poa bulbosa), à l’aisselle des écailles des bulbes (Monocotylédones), sur les feuilles aux dépens de cellules épidermiques (fougères diverses, Cardamine pratensis). Se détachent et constituent des boutures naturelles.

Spanish

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Record 4 1980-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
DEF

A small corm, usually produced from a bud in the axil of a parent corm's scale or leaf.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Petit bulbe, provenant de la transformation d’un bourgeon axillaire qui se détache et dissémine la plante.

Spanish

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Record 5 1980-11-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
OBS

A little bulb; usually applied to the bulb-like structures produced by some plants in the axils of the leaves or replacing the flowers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique

Spanish

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