tuber
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• noun
A much thickened, fleshy underground stem or root of a plant, such as the potato, yam, or cassava, that stores nutrients and is harvested and eaten as a starchy culinary vegetable.
"Roasting the starchy tuber with olive oil and rosemary brings out its natural earthy sweetness."
In botany, an enlarged, rounded subterranean organ of a plant (such as a dahlia or cyclamen) bearing buds or eyes from which new shoots arise for vegetative reproduction.
"The gardener carefully dug up the dahlia tubers before the first winter frost to store them in dry peat moss."
In anatomy, a rounded swelling, knoblike prominence, or protuberance on a bone or organ.
"The radiologist examined the small bony tuber on the surface of the maxilla."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-17th century from Latin 'tuber', meaning 'a hump, swelling, or lump', from the Proto-Indo-European root '*teuə-' ('to swell').