Definition of tuber

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Tuber (n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

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Humpy :: Humpy (a.) Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.
Bunch :: Bunch (v. i.) To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence..
Orchis :: Orchis (n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous..
Tuberosities :: Tuberosities (pl. ) of Tuberosit.
Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..
Solanum :: Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade..
Hognut :: Hognut (n.) In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..
Diapophysis :: Diapophysis (n.) The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra..
Pommel :: Pommel (n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.
Teat :: Teat (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
Gibbous :: Gibbous (a.) Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon..
Turbot :: Turbot (n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke..
Convex :: Convex (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave..
Bunch :: Bunch (n.) A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Biventral :: Biventral (a.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum..
Root :: Root (n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag..
Scrofula :: Scrofula (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may
Boss :: Boss (n.) A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus..
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