tuber
/ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/US/ˈtubɚ/
tuber noun: a fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
Noun (1)
tuber (plural tubers or (uncommon, possibly obsolete) tubera)
Noun (2)
tuber (plural tubers)
- One who tubes.
Proper noun capitalized: Tuber
Tuber (plural Tubers)
- A surname.
tuber meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
tuber in Tamil
- fleshy underground stem
- கிழங்கு kiḻaṅku
tuber in Urdu
- ڈلا, گانٹھ, گمڑی
tuber in Bengali
- উদ্ভিদের একটি মাংসল, মোটা, ভূগর্ভস্থ কাণ্ড, এরারুট, একটি মোটা, স্ফীত মূলকাণ্ড
tuber in Telugu
- fleshy underground stem
- దుంప dumpa
More languagesFewer languages
- tuber in Malayalam
- കിഴങ്ങ് kiḻaṅṅŭ
- tuber in Kannada
- ಗಡ್ಡೆ gaḍḍe
- tuber in Punjabi
- ਗੰਢ gaṇḍh, ਗੱਠ gaṭṭha, گٹھ gaṭṭh, گنڈھ gaṉḍh
- tuber in Gujarati
- ગાંઠ gā̃ṭh
- tuber in Assamese
- আলু alu
- tuber in Tagalog
- busnginsuloy, lamang-lupa
- tuber in Malay
- ubi, tuber
- tuber in Indonesian
- umbi
- tuber in Thai
- มัน man
- tuber in Vietnamese
- củ
- tuber in Myanmar
- ဥ u.
Examples of tuber in a sentence
- She thrust her yamstick into the hard ground to reach the prized tuber.
- Earth up a potato crop several times during the season to encourage more tubers to grow.
- Regardless of size, after dividing each tuber should comprize of a body, a neck and a crown.
Forms of tuber
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tubers |
| plural possibly uncommon (obsolete) | tubera |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Tubers |
Origin of tuber
From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).
From tube + -er.
Words formed from tuber
Phrases with tuber
Words that rhyme with tuber
Questions about tuber
- What does tuber mean?
- Tuber means a fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
- What is tuber in Tamil?
- Tuber in Tamil is கிழங்கு (kiḻaṅku). See Tuber meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tuber?
- Tuber can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tuber?
- Tuber is pronounced /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tuber?
- The plural of tuber is tubers.
Words near tuber in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tuber (page history and authors); Tuber (page history and authors); tuber (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tuber (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); گنڈھ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ગાંઠ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); আলু (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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