A botanical term meaning having or relating to bulbs or bulb-like structures, derived from the genus Cepa (onion).
From Latin cēpa (onion), which originally came from a Sanskrit or Indo-European root. The adjective form '-ous' was added to create a descriptive term for plants with bulbous characteristics.
The word 'onion' and its Latin name 'cēpa' traveled across cultures and languages—it probably originated in Central Asia thousands of years ago, and the root word spread with the actual onion plant to Europe and beyond.
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