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noun
1.
Botany. a fleshy, usually oblong or rounded thickening or outgrowth, as the potato, of a subterranean stem or shoot, bearing minute scalelike leaves with buds or eyes in their axils from which new plants may arise.
2.
Anatomy. a rounded swelling or protuberance; a tuberosity; a tubercle.
Related forms
tu·ber·less, adjective
tu·ber·oid, adjective
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Tuber
is always a great word to know.
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| phylum of green, nonvascular, seedless plants comprised of true mosses, hornworts and liverworts |
| phase in plant life which begins with a spore produced by meiosis |
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noun
1.
a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
2.
Also called inner-tuber. a person who participates in the sport of tubing.
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Word Origin & History
tuber
"thick underground stem," 1668, from L. tuber "lump, bump," perhaps related to tumere "to swell" (see thigh).
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Medical Dictionary
tuber tu·ber (t&oomacr;'bər, ty&oomacr;'-)
n. pl. tubers or tu·ber·a (-bər-ə)
A localized rounded projection or swelling; a knob, tuberosity, or eminence.
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Science Dictionary
tuber  (t 'bər) Pronunciation Key
The thickened part of an underground stem of a plant, such as the potato, bearing buds from which new plant shoots arise. Compare bulb, corm, rhizome, runner. |
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