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tuber

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[too-ber, tyoo-]
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noun

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.
Anatomy. a rounded swelling or protuberance; a tuberosity; a tubercle.

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RELATED WORDS

beet, potato, bulb, root, taro, yam, turnip, jalap, salep

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  4. tubeless tyre,
  5. tubenose,
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  7. tuber fern,
  8. tubercle,
  9. tubercle bacillus,
  10. tubercle of rib

Origin of tuber

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1660–70; < Latin tūber bump, swelling. Cf. truffle
Related formstu·ber·less, adjectivetu·ber·oid, adjective

tuber

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[too-ber, tyoo-]

noun

a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
Also called inner-tuber. a person who participates in the sport of tubing.

Origin of tuber

2
First recorded in 1920–25; tube + -er1
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British Dictionary definitions for tuber

tuber

noun

a fleshy underground stem (as in the potato) or root (as in the dahlia) that is an organ of vegetative reproduction and food storage
anatomy a raised area; swelling

Word Origin for tuber

C17: from Latin tūber hump
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Word Origin and History for tuber

tuber

n.

"thick underground stem," 1660s, from Latin tuber "lump, bump," perhaps related to tumere "to swell" (see thigh).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Medicine definitions for tuber

tuber

[tōō′bər]

n. pl. tubers

A localized rounded projection or swelling; a knob, tuberosity, or eminence.
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Science definitions for tuber

tuber

[tōō′bər]

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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