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- noun Plural form of
bulblet .
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Examples
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There is no need to leave space between bulbs for future offsets ( "bulblets") to grow, nor do you need to fertilize them.
RutlandHerald.com 2008
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You will have new Casa Blancas in a couple of years from those bulblets.
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This is the second time I have stumbled across the wonderful word ‘bulblets’ this evening!
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The purple oxalis is not hardy for me either, but will be planted out anyway, maybe a couple of the little bulblets will be brought into the greenhouse in the fall, it is so sweet.
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Sometimes the tulips manage to build up the little bulblets to bloom again, even years later.
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These ramps are fairly mature, so they actually had bulblets at the end of their stems; these you have to clean very carefully.
Tigers & Strawberries » Once Upon a Time in China and America 2005
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They break off when pulled and make baby bulblets as well as seed if allowed to flower.
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Cleaned mature ramps showing the gradation of brilliant color: icy white bulblets, garnet stem and verdant leaves.
Tigers & Strawberries » Once Upon a Time in China and America 2005
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The bladder fern is propagated in part from its bulblets, while the walking leaf bends over to the earth and roots at the tip.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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While producing spores freely it seems to propagate its species mainly by bulblets, which, falling into a moist soil, at once send out a pair of growing roots, while a tiny frond starts to uncoil from the heart of the bulb.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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