tuber
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- noun
- /ˈtuːbər/
- Specialized
:
tubérculo
- The five pillars of every longevity diet in the world are whole grains, greens, tubers like sweet potatoes, nuts and beans.
- seed tubers
- harvest tubers
- new tubers
It's all seasonal tubers like sweet potatoes.
- It's all seasonal tubers like sweet potatoes.
- So some varieties will also produce tubers everywhere where the root touches the ground.
- Meat, fish, fowl, eggs, nut seeds, vegetables, some fruit, some starchy tubers.
- The cuca melons, they kind of produce tubers.
- They love tubers like yams, like picama, like Taro root, like yuca or yuca.
- The five pillars of every longevity diet in the world are whole grains, greens, tubers like sweet potatoes, nuts and beans.
- And you mentioned whole grains, you mentioned greens, tubers, nuts and beans.
Examples
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It's all seasonal tubers like sweet potatoes.
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Ivory Crisp is a round, white tuber ideal for processing into chips.
Academic text (2003) -
But some of the seed tubers are bought up for sale to home gardeners.
Academic text (2000) -
If left underground for more than a week past the harvest-ready state, tubers begin to sprout.
Academic text (1991) -
To satisfy our appetite for potatoes, ARS scientists breed and test promising new tubers for tomorrow.
Academic text (2003) -
There were breads, jars of spreads, tubers, bundles of herbs, and eggs of all types.
Fiction book (1992) -
Plant pathologist Dennis Corsini and scientific aide Penny Tubbs examine the tubers for disease symptoms.
Academic text (2000) -
Many vegetables, such as potatoes and carrots, are classified as tubers because they store nutrients underground.
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Farmers often plant tubers like sweet potatoes during the warm season for a bountiful harvest.
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The potato is a well-known tuber that is used in numerous dishes around the world.
Synonyms
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A vegetable that grows under the ground like a carrot or potato
Compounds
- Specialized
A small grey-brown insect whose caterpillars eat and damage potato crops
How Starchy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tuber comes from the Latin tuber meaning 'lump' or 'swelling'. A tuber is like a food 'lump' that grows underground, such as a potato, and stores energy for the plant.