Tuber
noun
The thick underground part of a stem or rhizome, in which food is stored.
Potatoes and yams are examples of plants with tubers.
noun
The swollen end of a plant stem that is typically underground and is used by the plant for storing nutrients.
The potato is a well-known tuber used extensively in cooking.
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Academic
noun
The thick underground part of a stem or rhizome, in which food is stored.
Potatoes and yams are examples of plants with tubers.
noun
The swollen end of a plant stem that is typically underground and is used by the plant for storing nutrients.
The potato is a well-known tuber used extensively in cooking.
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Part of Plant
Understand that 'tuber' refers to a specific part of some plants, usually underground.
Farmers harvest the tubers of potatoes in the autumn.
Pro Tip 2/3Food Storage
'Tuber' implies the plant part is for storing nutrients, useful during winter or drought.
The tuber acts as food storage for the plant through the harsh winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Edible
Though many tubers are edible, some may be toxic or inedible; 'tuber' doesn't mean it's food for humans.
Be careful not to eat wild tubers as they may not be safe for consumption.
Pro Tip 1/3Part of Plant
Understand that 'tuber' refers to a specific part of some plants, usually underground.
Farmers harvest the tubers of potatoes in the autumn.
Pro Tip 2/3Food Storage
'Tuber' implies the plant part is for storing nutrients, useful during winter or drought.
The tuber acts as food storage for the plant through the harsh winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Edible
Though many tubers are edible, some may be toxic or inedible; 'tuber' doesn't mean it's food for humans.
Be careful not to eat wild tubers as they may not be safe for consumption.
Pro Tip 1/3Part of Plant
Understand that 'tuber' refers to a specific part of some plants, usually underground.
Farmers harvest the tubers of potatoes in the autumn.
Pro Tip 2/3Food Storage
'Tuber' implies the plant part is for storing nutrients, useful during winter or drought.
The tuber acts as food storage for the plant through the harsh winter.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Edible
Though many tubers are edible, some may be toxic or inedible; 'tuber' doesn't mean it's food for humans.
Be careful not to eat wild tubers as they may not be safe for consumption.
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Video examples
We Are What We Eat:...
Often the woman looks for tubers. There's this vine coming out of the trees, they locate them, dig they find the root, they cut out the root with a knife and they keep the root, and then it's a little bit like potato. When they move around and they pass something edible they will just grab food. And some time they are looking straight
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This New Zealand Couple...
their knees black rot had set in a killer disease you do it would love it tight tight tight portions so joe bred a tuber resistant to bugs which we gave to the north with love and big hugs they gave it for free to this land they adore their gift back to new zealand they don't ask for more
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A Plan to Feed the World...
grown and fed directly to people rice wheat fruits vegetables roots and tubers so on and so forth the red world primarily feeds animals and in some cases cars we do eat those animals but as Dennis mentioned before it is not a hundred percent efficient so ever you see red is a place you're
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History through the eyes...
thus lifting the West to its place of world dominion. However, not all European countries sprouted empires. After the Irish adopted the potato, their population dramatically increased, as did their dependence on the tuber as a major food staple.
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How will we survive when...
They capture it from rainfall, and they reuse and recycle it endlessly. And the food comes from small-scale networks of farms that focus on trees and tubers rather than less productive cereals like wheat and rice.
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What foods did your...
it turns out the lack was not of food per se but of something respectable like rice. I asked them, "How did you learn that your so-called trash is edible? Who told you that certain bitter tubers can be sweetened
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Bringing the Meat to...
little bit those tubers shouldn't do it this is filling my belly after this almost sense of satisfactory sing in my mouth including my teeth it's a great feeling I don't think I'll need to eat again for a week
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Shifting the visual...
these balls of sebum the oil that causes pimples and here is a tumor and the tuber kind of looks like a porcupine because the nuclei are densely packed and various pointy shapes so after that
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Up Close with the...
they have about thirty apples it's better than ours portabellas eats a large body parents about the potatoes by the sweets today people girls of hey tubers of straw and there was all this
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Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
through some grass or some tubas of course these tubers and roots have lots of water in them and that's also how this sauce the water we have seen the many times once they drop their pool
Video examples
We Are What We Eat:...
Often the woman looks for tubers. There's this vine coming out of the trees, they locate them, dig they find the root, they cut out the root with a knife and they keep the root, and then it's a little bit like potato. When they move around and they pass something edible they will just grab food. And some time they are looking straight
Video examples
This New Zealand Couple...
their knees black rot had set in a killer disease you do it would love it tight tight tight portions so joe bred a tuber resistant to bugs which we gave to the north with love and big hugs they gave it for free to this land they adore their gift back to new zealand they don't ask for more
Video examples
A Plan to Feed the World...
grown and fed directly to people rice wheat fruits vegetables roots and tubers so on and so forth the red world primarily feeds animals and in some cases cars we do eat those animals but as Dennis mentioned before it is not a hundred percent efficient so ever you see red is a place you're
Video examples
History through the eyes...
thus lifting the West to its place of world dominion. However, not all European countries sprouted empires. After the Irish adopted the potato, their population dramatically increased, as did their dependence on the tuber as a major food staple.
Video examples
How will we survive when...
They capture it from rainfall, and they reuse and recycle it endlessly. And the food comes from small-scale networks of farms that focus on trees and tubers rather than less productive cereals like wheat and rice.
Video examples
What foods did your...
it turns out the lack was not of food per se but of something respectable like rice. I asked them, "How did you learn that your so-called trash is edible? Who told you that certain bitter tubers can be sweetened
Video examples
Bringing the Meat to...
little bit those tubers shouldn't do it this is filling my belly after this almost sense of satisfactory sing in my mouth including my teeth it's a great feeling I don't think I'll need to eat again for a week
Video examples
Shifting the visual...
these balls of sebum the oil that causes pimples and here is a tumor and the tuber kind of looks like a porcupine because the nuclei are densely packed and various pointy shapes so after that
Video examples
Up Close with the...
they have about thirty apples it's better than ours portabellas eats a large body parents about the potatoes by the sweets today people girls of hey tubers of straw and there was all this
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
through some grass or some tubas of course these tubers and roots have lots of water in them and that's also how this sauce the water we have seen the many times once they drop their pool
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