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minituber

minituber noun: a miniature tuber.

Noun

minituber (plural minitubers)

  1. A miniature tuber.
    • Recently, cytokinins (CKs) were proposed to induce aerial minitubers in tomato, similar to potato tubers.2016 March 4, “Insight on Genes Affecting Tuber Development in Potato upon Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of minituber

pluralminitubers

Origin of minituber

From mini- + tuber.

Questions about minituber

What does minituber mean?
Minituber means a miniature tuber.
What part of speech is minituber?
Minituber is a noun.
What is the plural of minituber?
The plural of minituber is minitubers.

Words near minituber in the dictionary

  1. minitrials
  2. minitruck
  3. minitrucker
  4. minitruckers
  5. minitrucks
  6. minituber
  7. minitubers
  8. minium
  9. miniums
  10. minivac
  11. minivacation

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