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.
noun
1.
a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
2.
Also called inner-tuber. a person who participates in the sport of tubing.
noun
1.
a fleshy underground stem (as in the potato) or root (as in the dahlia) that is an organ of vegetative reproduction and food storage
2.
(anatomy) a raised area; swelling
tuber tu·ber (tōō’bər, tyōō’-)
n. pl. tubers or tu·ber·a (-bər-ə)
A localized rounded projection or swelling; a knob, tuberosity, or eminence.
tuber
(t’bər)
The thickened part of an underground stem of a plant, such as the potato, bearing buds from which new plant shoots arise. Compare bulb, corm, rhizome, runner.
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