Tuber Definition

to͝obər, tyo͝o-
tubers
noun
A short, thickened, fleshy part of an underground stem, as a potato: new plants develop from the buds, or eyes, that grow in the axils of the minute scale leaves of a tuber.
Webster's New World
A similar outgrowth of a plant root.
American Heritage
A tubercle or swelling.
Webster's New World
(horticulture) A thickened "root-stock".
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Tuberaceae "” true truffles and close relatives.

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Other Word Forms of Tuber

Noun

Singular:
tuber
Plural:
tubers

Origin of Tuber

  • Latin tūber lump teuə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin tÅ«ber (“bump, hump, swelling").

    From Wiktionary

Tuber Sentence Examples

  • The potato tuber consists mainly of a mass of cells filled with starch and encircled by a thin corky rind.

  • The plants generally have a rhizome bearing radical leaves, as in asphodel, rarely a stem with a tuft of leaves as in Aloe, very rarely a tuber (Eriospermum) or bulb (Bowiea).

  • An orchis found in the mountain yields the dried tuber which affords the nutritious mucilage called salep; a good deal of this goes to India.

  • The so-called fir-cone potatoes, which are elongated and provided with scales at more or less regular intervals, show also very clearly that the tuber is only a thickened branch with "eyes" set in regular order, as in an ordinary shoot.

  • A second edition of the Herbal was published in 1636 by Thomas Johnson, with a different illustration from that given in the first edition, and one which in some respects, as in showing the true nature of the tuber, is superior to the first.

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Words Starting With

TTUTUB

Words Ending With

RERBER

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