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Tuber
an enlarged, underground stem that stores food.
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tuber
An underground stem which has been modified for storage of nutrients, such as a potato.
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Tuber
A storage organ used for propagation. It may be a fleshy root (e.g. Dahlia) or a swollen underground stem.
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Tuber
The swollen portion of an underground stem or root which acts as a storage organ and propagule; it is usually of one year's duration, those of successive years not arising directly from the old ones nor bearing any constant relation to them.
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Tuber
A swollen root that provides stored food for dormant plants. Tubers often possess buds or eyes from which new plants can grow.
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Tuber
[n] - a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage 2. [n] - type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles
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Tuber
A thickened fleshy root (dahlia) or an underground stem (potato) which serves as a food store and produces shoots
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Tuber
A short, fleshy, underground part of a stem or root.
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Tuber
A swollen root or underground stem or rootstock, which forms a food store for the plant.
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Tuber
Tuber: A lump or bump. The backward protrusion of the heel is called the tuber calcanei or, alternatively, the tuberosity of the calcaneus. Small tubers are a characteristic finding in tuberculosis, and tubers in the brain are seen in tuberous sclerosis.
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tuber
A starchy storage organ (such as a potato) formed by swelling of an underground stem or the distal end of a root. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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tuber
noun a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
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Tuber
noun type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles
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tuber
(too´bәr) a swelling or protuberance; see also tubercle and tuberosity. the essential lesion of tuberous sclerosis, a pale, firm, nodular glial hamartomatous brain lesion that sometimes becomes calcified; it develops predominantly in the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, medulla, and spinal c...
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Tuber
• (n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle. • (n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle. • (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
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tuber
short, thickened, mostly underground stem that constitutes the resting stage of certain seed plants. It bears minute scale leaves, each with a bud ... [10 related articles]
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tuber
Type: Term Pronunciation: tū′bĕr, too′ber-ă Definitions: 1. A localized swelling; a knob. 2. A short, fleshy, thick, underground stem of plants, such as the potato.
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Tuber
Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to survive the winter or dry months and provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing season and they are a means of asexual reproduction. There are both stem and ...
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TUBER
A fleshy root or swollen underground stem.
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tuber
tuber, enlarged tip of a rhizome (underground stem) that stores food. Although much modified in structure, the tuber contains all the usual stem parts—bark, wood, pith, nodes, and internodes. The eyes of a potato tuber are nodes where sprouts appear, and they are arranged in the same spiral pa...
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Tuber
A tuber is a thickened, fleshy or scaly portion of a plant's underground stem which serves as a store-house for starch and other plant food, allowing the pant to survive periods of frost or drought when its above ground parts are destroyed.
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Swollen region of an underground stem or root, usually modified for storing food. The potato is a stem tuber, as shown by the presence of terminal and lateral buds, the `eyes` of the potato. Root tubers, for example dahlias, developed from adventitious roots (growing from the stem, not from...
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tuber
Latin tuber = a swelling or lump.
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a short, thickened underground stem which bears numerous buds
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Tuber
The swollen part of a plant underground that stores energy. Potatoes are tubers.
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