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Tuber

noun

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

Type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles. Synonym: genus Tuber.

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"Tuber" Quotes from Famous Books

... missel (thrush). orphan, often. putty, puttee. pedal, peddle. police, pelisse. principal, principle. profit, prophet. rigour, rigger. rancour, ranker. succour, sucker. sailor, sailer. cellar, seller. censor, censer. surplus, surplice. symbol, cymbal. skip, skep. tuber, tuba. whirl, whorl. wert, wort (herb, obs.). vial, ...

— Society for Pure English, Tract 2, on English Homophones • Robert Bridges

... was the most advanced French outpost in the direction we were following. We passed it, crossing some open fields where a solitary man was calmly digging potatoes, risking his life at every turn of his spade, but knowing that every pound of the precious tuber that he might succeed in taking into Paris would there fetch perhaps as ...

— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Words linked to "Tuber" : Jerusalem artichoke, yam, water chestnut, tuberous, tuber root, stalk, stem, fungus genus, potato tuber moth, wild bean, truffle, groundnut, earth-ball, earthnut, potato bean