bulblet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small bulb.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A little bulb; specifically, in botany, a small aërial bulb or bud with fleshy scales, growing in the axils of leaves, as in the tiger-lily, or taking the place of flower-buds, as in the common onion. Also bulbel, bulbil.

Wiktionary

1. n. botany A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb or on some aerial part of a plant.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers