A small bulb or bulb-like body, especially one produced on the leaf or stem of a plant for vegetative reproduction.
From 'bulb' (Latin 'bulba') plus diminutive suffix '-el,' coined in botanical terminology for miniature bulb structures.
Plants like lilies grow tiny bulbels on their stems and leaves as a shortcut to making babies—it's like plants having clone factories built into their bodies.
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