Tuber

Word TUBER
Character 5
Hyphenation tu ber
Pronunciations /tjuːbə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Tuber"

What do we mean by tuber?

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

A similar outgrowth of a plant root. noun

A rounded projection or swelling; a tubercle. noun

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. noun

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). noun

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). noun

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

A genus of fungi. See truffle. noun

A tuberosity; a tubercle. noun

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

A thickened "root-stock". noun

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

Type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles noun

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

A thickened rootstock.

A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

1) n. In New England, it is a brass musical instument, conical in construction, about 18 feet long, with a large mouthpiece, and is the lowest of the brass instruments. It replaced the ophiclede in the symphony orchestra, and has nothing to do with Wagner Tubas. It has only one direct cousin in brass instruments, that being the fluglehorn, for all other brass instruments are more cylindrical than the tuber, even the french horn. 2) n. For the rest of the English-speaking world, it is a fleshy-rooted plant like a potato or a yam. Hence, New Englanders and Non-New Englanders can get confused at times, as evidenced below. Urban Dictionary

A low-class member of the internet comment brigade. Derived from intertube and youtube combined with the fact that many tubers seem to have roughly the intelligence and shape of a potato, this being a different kind of tuber. Tubers can generally be recognized by the fact that their comments bear little to no relevance to the subject at hand. Urban Dictionary

A Tuber is an Underground root system, you morons. It has to do with plant systems.. Wow. Urban Dictionary

Giving or receiving a blow job Urban Dictionary

A woman who has had sex so many times that her vagina passes the circumfrence of an inner tube Urban Dictionary

To uber to imagine, :-: better than uber-pwn Urban Dictionary

To smoke from a water pipe. pull a tube. Urban Dictionary

Someone who enjoys watching adult videos on the internet Urban Dictionary

Taking big fat bong rips... not just the little panzee bongs.... the 3 foot TUBES Urban Dictionary

Best nickname ever. Generally used for someone who watches a lot of TV. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Tuber

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The word "tuber" in example sentences

And thus began the investigation of how this tasty tuber is used here and its place in the country's culinary history. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now, I can't really comment on his career and if he really was like the potato, but what he said about the tuber, is something I can concur with. ❋ Bilbo (2006)

Round or elongated, firm-fleshed and quite gourmet, this tuber is becoming a hit on the culinary scene at fine restaurants ... ❋ Unknown (2005)

Potatoes are propagated by what are called sets, that is, pieces into which the tuber is cut, each of which contains a bud or eye. ❋ Jane (1845)

It therefore becomes necessary to develop specific storage methods for each root and tuber, which is illustrated by the great variety of traditional storage systems. ❋ Unknown (1978)

The central tuber, which is the biggest and yet soft, is the one chiefly used for food. ❋ Unknown (1977)

The tuber is the _Topinambour_, and _Pois de terre_ of the French; having been brought to Europe in 1617. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

[6] A tuber is a swollen, fleshy bud that will grow on the part of the stem that is buried in the soil, they create shoots where a new plant with someday grow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is under threat from urbanisation - the construction of roads and shopping malls - and from over-exploitation - in places where the plant still occurs in Namibia, South African and Botswana, harvesting is uncontrolled and often involves uprooting of its tuber, which is rich in starch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Schmidt said, "A tuber is a tumor, they call it a tuber because of the way that it grows, it kind of more like potatoish." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term "tuber" is used in its narrow horticultural sense as meaning a short, thickened portion of an underground branch. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

[Footnote 15: This tuber, which is a well-known and very useful vegetable in England, comes from the root of a species of sunflower ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)

The potato is a tuber which is nothing more than the swollen end of an underground stem; the onion a bulb composed of the bases of thickened leaves; the corn an example of a jointed stem or grass having two kinds of flowers, the tassels being the staminate flowers and the cob with its silk the pistillate ones; the sunflower an example of a compound flower made up of many little flowers each of which produces a single seed. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

I’ve never seen such a plant before – is it some kind of tuber? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ludmilla Zinoviev, she of the huge knee-caps, paraded about with the giant tuber as if it were a delicate baby, instead of the glorious fruit of collective agriculture that it is! ❋ Con Chapman (2012)

Global commerce demands a long, firm, smooth tuber, the better to produce the frozen, uniform obelisks required by fast-food megakitchens. ❋ Frances Robinson (2011)

They pulled up popular varieties of tuber such as challenger, innovator and ramos—not a bintje in sight. ❋ Frances Robinson (2011)

An actual conversation: [Denny]: Dan, can you play the tuber for the Bristol, [RI] band [next weekend]? Dan: Well Denny, do you want me to play 1st or 2nd potato? ❋ Dan1271 (2007)

News article: "The Norwegian election may have been rigged." [Tuber] 1: "how do i post coments?" Tuber 2: "the REAL problem with this country is the two [party system] that allows for rigging!" Tuber 3: "TELL EVERYONE THAT ASHLEY IS A [TWO TIMING WHORE]" ❋ NorCur (2011)

[A potato] has a tuber [growing] underneath it in its [soil]. ❋ Amanda (2005)

She [gave] him a tuber...It was [great]. [email protected] (2015)

[That slut] [Angeline] is such a tuber, what guy hasnt had a piece of that loose [beaver]. ❋ Joe Ander (2004)

you are [TUBER] at this [game] - you are to awesome at this game to be [playing]. ❋ Sn1pesh1t (2009)

[Lets go] do some tubers! [how about] a [tuber]? ❋ Blank Blank (2007)

[Im] a [hardcore] [tuber] ❋ Sharkpower (2014)

"who [wants] to [take] some [tubers]?" ❋ Digg (2006)

[That guy] there, his name is Tuber Tuber? [Well], [Anthony], but, he calls himself Tuber. ❋ Neelix (2006)

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