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Noun Concept
Categories: Plant morphology, Tubers, Articles with short description, Plant anatomy, Plant reproduction
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tuber  Culture of tubers  plant tuber  plant tubers  root tuber
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A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage WordNet 3.0
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A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Tubers are a type of enlarged structure used as storage organs for nutrients in some plants. Wikipedia
Type of modified plant structure that is enlarged to store nutrients. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Plant's underground storage organ formed by the swelling of an underground stem which produces buds and stores photosynthate metabolites/nutrients, forming a seasonal perennating organ, e.g. a potato Wikidata
A fleshy, thickened under-ground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch. OmegaWiki
A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot. Wiktionary
Fleshy underground stem. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
stalk
HAS KIND
groundnut
Jerusalem artichoke
water chestnut
yam
potato
+5 relations
DERIVATION
tuberous
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
DEVELOPS FROM
stolon
rhizome
root
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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tuber
Wikipedia
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tuber
Wikidata
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tuber
Wiktionary
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tuber
OmegaWiki
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tuber
Wikipedia Redirections
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Culture of tubers, root tuber, stem tuber, storage root, tuberous, tuberous crops, tuberous root, tubers
Wikidata Alias
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plant tuber, plant tubers, tubers

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