Definition of tuber
b
: a fleshy root or rhizome resembling a tuber
2
: tuberosity
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Found at restaurants owned by venerable chefs like Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Dominique Crenn, and Daniel Humm, Australian black truffles are harvested from June to August, providing fresh tubers when Europe isn’t able to.
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The Domes got its first titan arum from a tuber off a corpse flower plant at the University of Wisconsin a couple decades ago, said Braunreiter.
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For winter sports, the city’s Sault Seal Recreation Area is a convenient practice spot for downhill skiing, and a hub for snow tubers.
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Invasive swordfern with tubers towards bottom Kenneth Setzer Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Swordfern (Nephrolepiscordifolia), and Asian swordfern (N. brownii) are two sneaky invasive ferns.
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Sweet potatoes are the only plant in the Ipomoea genus with a tuber—a large, thick root that stores nutrients and produces the buds that grow into new plants.
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The pathogen overwinters on infected tubers and in plant debris.
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Established in 1997, a mix of oak and hazelnut trees were inoculated with the spores of French Périgord truffles, the second most valuable tuber after the Italian white truffle.
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Because the sandy soil of her land is particularly suitable for growing roots and tubers, Sirijai turned to permaculture farming methods.
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Origin and Etymology of tuber
Latin, swelling, truffle; perhaps akin to Latin tumēre to swell — more at 1thumb
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First Known Use: 1668
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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Definition of tuber for English Language Learners
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: a short, thick, round stem that is a part of certain plants (such as the potato), that grows underground, and that can produce a new plant
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Definition of tuber for Students
: a short thick fleshy usually underground stem (as of a potato plant) having buds that can produce new plants
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