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Tuberous   Listen
adjective
Tuberous  adj.  
1.
Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
2.
(Bot.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.





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"Tuberous" Quotes from Famous Books



... planted a cross, and displayed the scutcheon of Madame de Guercheville. Thence, passing on to Port Royal, he found Biard, Masse, their servant-boy, an apothecary, and one man beside. Biencourt and his followers were scattered about the woods and shores, digging the tuberous roots called ground-nuts, catching alewives in the brooks, and by similar expedients sustaining their miserable existence. Taking the two Jesuits on board, the voyagers steered for the Penobscot. A fog rose upon the sea. They sailed to and fro, ...
— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.
... comes on a fragrant bed of lotus in its paddy field. It seems odd at first that lotus—and burdock—should be cultivated for food. As a pickle burdock is eatable, but lotus and some unfamiliar tuberous plants are pleasant food resembling in flavour boiled chestnuts. Konnyaku (hydrosme rivieri), a near relative of the arum lily, is produced to the weight of 11 million kwan—a kwan is roughly 8-1/4 lbs.[40] The yield of burdock is about 44 million kwan. ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott


Words linked to "Tuberous" :   hybrid tuberous begonia, tuberous plant, tuberosity


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