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n. A swollen, fleshy, usually underground stem of a plant, such as the potato, bearing buds from which new plant shoots arise.

n. A rounded projection or swelling; a tubercle.

n. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.

n. A thickened "root-stock".

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n. A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of tuberous.

n. A genus of fungi. See truffle.

n. A tuberosity; a tubercle.

n. In botany, a subterranean body, usually of an oblong or rounded form, consisting morphologically of a stolon-like branch of a rhizome, much thickened, commonly at the end, and beset with “eyes,” which are properly modified axillary buds.

n. A genus of subterranean discomycetous fungi, the truffles, having the peridium warty or tubercled, without definite base, the asci ovoid or globose, and one- to three- or (rarely) four-spored. About 50 species are known. T. æstivum is the common truffle. See truffle (with cut).

n. In pathol., anat., and zoology, some rounded swelling part; a tuberosity; a tubercle; a knot or swelling which is not the result of disease: used chiefly as a Latin word (with Latin plural tubera).

n. a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage

n. type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles

"And thus began the investigation of how this tasty tuber is used here and its place in the country's culinary history."

fungus genus   

tuber radii    tuber calcis    olfactory tuber    tuber cinereum    tuber ischii    tuber cochleæ    tuber annulare   

tubercle    tubercular   

tuberous    truffle   

tuberosity    tubercle    tubercule   

lentil    acorn    celery    millet    pea    cereal    berry    broccoli    herbage    venison