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Tuberous   Listen
adjective
Tuberous  adj.  
1.
Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
2.
(Bot.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.





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"Tuberous" Quotes from Famous Books



... three types: the flowering fibrous-rooted begonias, the decorative leaved begonias and the tuberous-rooted, with their abundant and gorgeous flowers and beautiful foliage. (These latter are described more fully in Chapter ...
— Gardening Indoors and Under Glass • F. F. Rockwell
... its trunk had been sawn off level with the ground. A root of Ipomea sellowii has been known to keep on growing for twelve years after its top had been destroyed by frost; and in all that time it never made buds or leaves, yet it increased to seven times its original weight. The tuberous roots of some of the Tropoeolums will continue to grow and increase in size after the tops have been accidentally broken off; and potatoes buried so deep in the earth that they cannot produce tops will produce a crop ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various


Words linked to "Tuberous" :   tuberosity, tuberous plant, tuberous vetch


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