Definitions for tuber

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tuber tu·ber

Spelling: [too-ber, tyoo-]

IPA: /ˈtu bər, ˈtyu-/

Tuber is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in tuber (bertu).

Definitions for tuber

noun

1. Botany. a fleshy, usually oblong or rounded thickening or outgrowth, as the potato, of a subterranean stem or shoot, bearing minute scalelike leaves with buds or eyes in their axils from which new plants may arise.
2. Anatomy. a rounded swelling or protuberance; a tuberosity; a tubercle.
3. a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
4. Also called inner-tuber. a person who participates in the sport of tubing.

Origin of tuber

1660-70; Latin tūber bump, swelling. Cf. truffle

Examples for tuber

A second crop of flowers need not be expected from a tuber that has borne one crop.

It is found in the tuber of the dahlia, in the dandelion, and some other plants.

I feel like they are the alchemist of the tuber world; they make everything from smooth, soft purees to beautiful crunchy pickles.

Chemically and physically these cells are just the same as the cells in the interior of the tuber.

This skin is produced by the action of the surface cells of the tuber.

Sometimes it attacks the potato, eating down the stalk into the tuber.

All of these may be grown from seed or by division of the tuber before planting.

In kitchen-gardens it is planted like the potato, the tuber being cut in pieces.

Now let us take our tuber, slice it in half, and replace it in the earth again.

But I will tell you more about this class in connection with the bulb and tuber families.