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• She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.From the entry yamstick
• Earth up a potato crop several times during the season to encourage more tubers to grow.From the entry earth up
• Regardless of size, after dividing each tuber should comprize of a body, a neck and a crown.2024, Ulrika Grönlund, Dahlias: Inspiration, Cultivation and Care for 222 Varieties, Quadrille Publishing. From the entry comprize
• Sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem artichokes, are tubers from a type of sunflower native to North America.2017 February 24, Nancy Stiles, “Three Ways to Use Sunchokes While They're in Season”, in Feast Magazine. From the entry artichokelike
• 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. From the entry minituber
• A translucent, gelatinous cake made from the starch of a yamlike tuber known as devil's tongue.2015, Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst, The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion, 2nd edition. From the entry yamlike
• You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw.2014, Leda Meredith, Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles, →ISBN. From the entry hopniss
• Local gardeners speculate he was growing Kennebecs that year, a variety known for large tubers.2006, Brenda Seekins…. From the entry Kennebec
• Tubers are given to sheep as remedy for colic and also as wormicide.1997, Journal of Non-timber Forest Products, page 7. From the entry wormicide
• Blackheart results from inadequate oxygen supply for respiration (asphyxiation) of internal tuber tissue.1981, W. J. Hooker, Compendium of Potato Diseases, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry blackheart
• There is also produced each year at the end of a stalk one new storage tuber.1918, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions, Volumes 42-44, page 3. From the entry storage tuber
• A member of the taro faily, the malanga produces a dark brown tuber with a rough, thick skin.1982 May 13, Kathryn W. Foster, “Tropical Treats”, in The Miami Herald, volume 72, number 164, page 16E. From the entry malanga blanca
• Plant the tubers roundside down; the buds on the concave side should be & inch below the soil surface.1969, Stanley Schuler, Gardening in the East, page 312. From the entry roundside
• At various times and in different areas salads, compounded of meats, spices, tubers have been treated as of aphrodisiac value.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213. From the entry salad
• Nicolas Venette, French physician, refers to skirret, a plant that has esculent tubers, for its high aphrodisiac potential.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 224. From the entry esculent
• Glucomannan (also known as konjac flour or konjac root powder) is a fiber extracted from the tubers of the konjac plant (Amorphophallus konjac).2023, Cristina Kisner, Cristy's Kitchen: More Than 130 Scrumptious and Nourishing Recipes Without Gluten, Dairy, or Processed Sugar…. From the entry glucomannan
• She has made a name for herself as one of the most popular women Pokétubers (sobriquet given for YouTubers who create Pokémon content).2019 August, Nicholas-Brie Guarriello, “Never give up, never surrender: Game live streaming, neoliberal work, and personalized media…. From the entry PokéTuber
• Colonist Isaac Batey, when commenting on the disappearance of the yam daisy, remembers the women harvesting and washing the tubers in vast quantities.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 21. From the entry yam daisy
• The root tubers of Japanese arrowroot can be used either in fresh dried form after cooking in a manner similar to other root crops.2017, A. T. Sadashiva, M. V. Bharathkumar, “Japanese Arrowroot”, in M. K. Rana, editor, Vegetable Crop Science, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC…. From the entry arrowroot
• Wild-type plants treated with ancymidol, an inhibitor of GA biosynthesis, will tuberize in LD, which is very similar to the formation of tubers on the antisense PHYB plants.2015 August 17, Mei Yang et al., “Transcriptomic Analysis of the Regulation of Rhizome Formation in Temperate and Tropical Lotus (Nelumbo…. From the entry ancymidol
• Tropical tubers alone are staggering in their diversity, including white and yellow true yams, sweet potatoes, yucca, yautia, African yams, malanga coco, fresh batata, and several kinds of potatoes.2010, “Greater Boston”, in Patricia Harris, David Lyon, Food Lovers’ Guide to Massachusetts: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes…. From the entry malanga coco
• Also called Chinese artichokes or chorogis, crosnes look like beetle larvae and taste like water chestnuts, but, in fact, they are tubers, in the mint family.2004, Nick Paumgarten, “Little Giant”, in The New Yorker, volume 80, number 35, page 23. From the entry crosne
• It must be understood that while the nelumbiums are hardy, they are so only as long as the tubers are out of the reach of frost.1947, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. From the entry so
• When you dig up your dahlias in late autumn you'll be surprised by the number of tubers that have formed, and by how different they look depending on the variety.2024, Ulrika Grönlund, Dahlias: Inspiration, Cultivation and Care for 222 Varieties, Quadrille Publishing. From the entry comprize
• Although almost all nelumbos are rated hardy to zone 5, or according to some optimists, zone 4, that rating assumes enough water and soil to protect the tubers from freezing.2007 December 27, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times. From the entry nelumbo

Meaning of tuber

1. noun A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
2. noun A thickened rootstock.
3. noun A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

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Questions about tuber in a sentence

How do you use tuber in a sentence?

Tuber is used as a noun. For example: “She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.”

What is a short sentence with tuber?

“You have to cook hopniss tubers—they are inedible and potentially toxic raw.”

What does tuber mean?

Tuber means a fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.