tuber
pronunciation
How to pronounce tuber in British English:
UK [ˈtju:bə(r)]
How to pronounce tuber in American English:
US [ˈtubə(r)]
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- Noun:
- a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
Word Origin
- tuber
- tuber: see truffle
- tuber (n.)
- "thick underground stem," 1660s, from Latin tuber "edible root, truffle; lump, bump, swelling," from PIE *tubh-, from root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh).
Example
- 1. This year , we used the purplish tuber in taro and pumpkin tofu puffs .
- 2. Mashed , fried , boiled and roast , a humble tuber changed the world , and free-trading globalisers everywhere should celebrate it .
- 3. Potatoes are nutritious , too : they have the highest protein content of root and tuber crops ( around 2.1 percent ) , half the daily recommended intake of vitamin c , and a fifth of the recommended daily value of potassium .
- 4. By the time they were absorbed into britain their daily bread so to speak was a south american tuber now familiar as the domestic potato .
- 5. Each tuber weighs one to several pounds depending up on the cultivar type and feature gray-brown , rough woody textured skin .