Definition of tuber

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Tuber (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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Truffle :: Truffle (n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food..
Extuberate :: Extuberate (v. i.) To swell out.
Pot-bellied :: Pot-bellied (a.) Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot..
Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis..
Venter :: Venter (n.) A belly, or protuberant part; a broad surface; as, the venter of a muscle; the venter, or anterior surface, of the scapula..
Pimple :: Pimple (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
Knappy :: Knappy (a.) Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby.
Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle..
Tous-les-mois :: Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year..
Distal :: Distal (a.) Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone..
Teated :: Teated (a.) Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.
Belly :: Belly (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship..
Jag :: Jag (n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
Tuberculosis :: Tuberculosis (n.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption..
Spherulate :: Spherulate (a.) Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles..
Extuberant :: Extuberant (a.) Swollen out; protuberant.
Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers.
Swimmer :: Swimmer (n.) A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
Tubercled :: Tubercled (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk..
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