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 • Nov. 22, 2024

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 • Nov. 2, 2015

The tubers are a globally important dietary source of starch, protein, antioxidants and vitamins, serving the plant as both a storage organ and a vegetative propagation system.

From Nature • Jul. 13, 2011

On account of the nature of the urea and the bile, the liver is properly classed as an excretory organ; but in the formation of the glycogen it plays the part of a storage organ.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Under favorable conditions this mycelial caterpillar, which has become a storage organ, will send up an orange-red club-shaped body, as will be seen in Figure 492, and will produce the kind of spores described above.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha