Spoken of the stem when it has a bulb-like swelling at the base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Myoga is a bulb-like plant that is harvested while the plant is still growing underground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference

Kohlrabi produces a bulb-like swelling just above the soil, and the leaf stalks erupt from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groundwork: A cabbage named kohlrabi] Reference

Bulbil Small bulb-like organ near the base of leaves or in place of flowers which breaks off to form a new plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

These are elongated bulb-like bodies, having a length of about one three-hundredth of an inch, and occupying the papillæ of the skin (Fig. 144).    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

In a couple of minutes they had reached the pagoda and leaped on the platform between the columns which supported the bulb-like roof crowned by its tapering spire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference

In this vegetable, the lower parts of the leaves grow close together and form a bulb-like stem, or neck, which is fairly solid and which constitutes the edible part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables] Reference

Unfortunately, there aren't as many quick 'n easy fixes -- a compact fluorescent light bulb-like increase in efficiency without any sacrifice in performance, for example -- for furnaces, water heaters, and stoves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collin Dunn: Your Utility Bills are Going Up. What are You Going to Do About it?] Reference

Now is the time to start some calla rhizomes (a bulb-like modified stem) indoors.    From Wordnik.com.  [RutlandHerald.com] Reference

Wash the green onion, cut the long green stalks off of the white bulb-like things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sushi Day] Reference

Some tubers are very bulb-like in appearance, as the corms of crocus and gladiolus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

Spadix much enlarged and spongy in fruit, the bulb-like berries imbedded in its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Gladiolus grow from bulb-like structures called "corms", they serve the same purpose as a seed or bulb do.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

"It is contained in those roots," answered Sekosini, pointing to a bundle of bulb-like objects also suspended from the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa] Reference

For easiest removal and best results, the enlarged "bulb-like" stem of the offset should be less than 4 to 5 inches in diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News - News] Reference

In other words, the tulip bulb-like mania in the silver market may be about to hit a wall and that likely affects the entire metals complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

It was about four feet in length, bulged out at the lower end into a bulb-like protuberance, which may have been, however, merely an accidental result of its state of keeping; and threw off, at an acute angle, two branches about a foot from the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

At the time of transplanting, all of the small suckers, or side-shoots, should be rubbed off, -- a precaution to be kept in view throughout its growth, -- as the energies of the whole plant ought to be directed to the formation of the bulb-like root. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Tiny bulb-like structures do the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

There was a small, bulb-like object at its end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Tug] Reference