storage organ

American  

noun

Botany.

1. any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.

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Example Sentences

In contrast, workers are wingless females with smaller body size and degenerated reproductive tracts, usually without a sperm storage organ.

From Science Daily

"We found that hormone-treated worker ants developed many gyne-like physical characteristics, such as increased body length, three extra frontal eyes, wings and flight muscles, gyne-like brains; they even developed the gyne-specific sperm storage organ that workers of this species never have."

From Science Daily

In its first year, the carrot develops a tasty orange root, but this is merely a storage organ for the following spring, when it shoots up and produces umbels of tiny white flowers, each destined to become a seed.

From Washington Post

Martin adds that the AtMYB12 gene could also be engineered into other fruits, and potentially certain vegetables where the products could be accumulated in a storage organ such as a tuber.

From Scientific American

“They were eating the tubers, that is, the underground storage organ,” said the senior author of the study, Karen Hardy, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.

From New York Times