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Definition: Tuber |
TuberNoun1. A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage. 2. Type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tuber" was first used: 1668. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | An underground structure consisting of a solid thickened rounded outgrowth as a stem or rhizome. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A machine for continuous production of a given section by forcing plastic material through a die. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Tends machine that winds cloth from one form to another to facilitate further processing: Threads cloth from supply truck, bale, or roll through guides and rollers to $T3takeup roll,$T1 tube, or rod, or sews cloth to end of leader in machine, using sewing machine. Turns handwheel to adjust width guides. Starts machine and observes cloth to detect irregular seams and torn selvages. Pushes lever to control tension on cloth and speed of machine. Cuts out flaws and combines several cuts of cloth to form one roll, sewing ends with portable sewing machine. Records yardage clock reading on order ticket. Removes full rolls from machine onto handtruck by hand or using hoist. May wrap cloth roll for storage or shipping [ROLL COVERER, BURLAP (textile) 929.687-042]. May be designated according to process for which cloth is being wound as Boiling-Off Winder (textile); type of material wound as Carpet Winder (carpet & rug); or type of winding machine used as Reeling-And-Tubing-Machine Operator (textile). (references) |
| Installs inner tubes and flaps in tires preparatory to shipping: Positions tire under hydraulic spreader clamps. Pushes switch to activate clamps that spread sidewall of tire. Inserts inner tube in tire with valve located at point marked by TIRE BALANCER (rubber tire). Inflates inner tube, using airhose. Inserts flap over inner tube to prevent damage. (references) | |
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Synonym: TuberSynonym: genus Tuber (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tuber |
| English words defined with "tuber": Amorphophallus campanulatus, Amorphophallus paeonifolius ♦ Chinese yam ♦ earth-ball, earthnut, elephant yam ♦ groundnut ♦ Irish potato ♦ Jerusalem artichoke ♦ liliaceous plant ♦ murphy ♦ potato, potato bean, pungapung ♦ spud, sunchoke ♦ tater, telingo potato, truffle, tuberous, tuberous plant ♦ Wapatoo, water chestnut, white potato, wild bean ♦ yam. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tuber": Anterior Hypothalamic Nucleus ♦ BEAD-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Hypothalamus, Middle ♦ pSB8 tuber, pSB8G tuber ♦ TUSSACIA FREDRICHSTHALIANA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tuber": Bulbo-tuber ♦ Extuberate ♦ Protuberate ♦ Supertuberation ♦ truffle, tubercle, Tuberculum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tuber" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (bump, lump, tuber). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Green low patches are taro patches. Taro, a tuber, is a staple food of the western Pacific Islands. Native women maintain the taro culture. Credit: Small World. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period. |
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Health | The name tuberous sclerosis comes from the characteristic tuber or root-like growths in the brain, which calcify with age and become hard or sclerotic. (references) | |
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| "Tuber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tuber" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tuber": genus Tuber ♦ potato tuber moth ♦ pSB8 tuber ♦ pSB8G tuber ♦ root tuber ♦ tuber aestivum ♦ Tuber Cinereum ♦ tuber melanosporum ♦ tuber root. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tuber": tuber-bearing. | |
Ending with "tuber": Bulbo-tuber. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tuber | 53 |
hawaiian tuber | 17 |
rose tuber | 16 |
dahlia tuber | 9 |
tropical tuber | 6 |
tuber melanosporum | 5 |
tuber aestivum | 4 |
potato tuber | 4 |
plant tuber | 4 |
begonia tuber | 3 |
iris tuber | 3 |
dinner tuber | 3 |
growing melanosporum tuber | 2 |
lawrence tuber | 2 |
sclerosis tuber | 2 |
rodent tuber | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tuber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zhardhok (bulb, earth-nut, yam), xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, excrescence, gall, gallnut, glandule, hump, hunch, knob, knur, knurr, lump, node, nub, overgrowth, protuberance, swelling, tubercle), gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hump, hunch, knob, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nub, overgrowth, promontory, protuberance, swell, swelling, tubercle, tumefaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حدبة (boss, bunch, cam, hunch, mogul, process, prominence, protuberance), درنة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тумор (gibbosity, neoplasm, swelling, tubercle, tumor, tumour), гулия (colerape), грудка, нарастък (excrescence, knot, tubercle), буца (bunch, chunk, cob, dollop, gibbosity, gob, hunch, intumescence, junk, knob, lump, nub, protuberance), подземно стъбло, издатина (burr, horn, hump, jut, ledge, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, salient, set off, shelf, swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | " (fungus), 肿胀 (turgid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nádor (growth, lump, polypus, tubercle, tumor, tumour), hlíza (abscess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | staengelknold (root tuber), rodknold (corm, root tuber), knold (clod, nodule, root tuber), ekstruder-maskine (extruder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wortelknol (burl, burr, corm, root tuber), spuitmachine (extruder), knol (turnip), extruder (extruder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تکمه (Bud, Button), سیبک , زگیل (Wart), دکمه (Button, Knob), برامدگی زگیل مانند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mukula (corm, kid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tubercule (tubercle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Knolle (bulb, conk, nodule, potato, tubercule), Wurzelknolle (corm, root tuber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόνδυλοσ (fist, knuckle), κόνδυλος (condyle), ρίζα (radical, root), βολβόσ (bulb), βολβοειδής ρίζα (corm, root tuber), εξωθητήρας (extruder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פקעת (bulb, coil, hank, tangle), 'בשוש (tubercle, wart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gumó (bulb, root). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bonggol (bump, tubercle, tuberosity, wen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tubero (root tuber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 芋 (bumpkin, gnat, potato, taro, yokel), 塊茎 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいけい (account, accountant, bill, finance, paymaster, reckoning, seascape, treasurer), いも (bumpkin, potato, taro, yokel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 괴경. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moyl (excrescence, knob, knur, protuberance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubertay tubérculo (root tuber, tuber crop, tubercle). (various references) клубень. (various references) lukovica (bulb), izraštaj (excrescent, growth, outgrowth, process, protuberance, tubercle), gomoljika, gomoljast (bulbaceous, tuberous). (various references) tubérculo (tubercle). (various references) knöl (bounder, bump, cad, cad (person), dog, knob, knot, lout, mucker, rotter, sod). (various references) yumru kök, yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nub, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous, wart). (various references) опухання (swelling, tumescence), опуклість (bulb, convexity, embossment, knob, knurl, pellet, prominence, prominency, protuberance), бульба. (various references) củ nấm cục. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tuber. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tuber": tubercle, tubercles, tubercular, tuberculars, tuberculate, tuberculated, tuberculin, tuberculins, tuberculoid, tuberculoses, tuberculosis, tuberculous, tuberoid, tuberose, tuberoses, tuberosities, tuberosity, tuberous, tubers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tuber": antitubercular, antituberculosis, antituberculous, protuberance, protuberances, protuberant, protuberantly, pseudotuberculoses, pseudotuberculosis. (additional references) | |
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"Tuber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Etibar, etube, fuber, guber, iubere, juber, pubber, puber, shubber, Stulberg, tabern, tabir, taube, tebe, Teuber, Teubner, thube, tiber, Tiberi, Tober, Todber, Toubert, Tsuboi, tuabe, tubae, tubbed, tubbo, tubel, tubet, Tubey, tubiz, tubler, Tuborg, tuer, Tuero, tumer, turer, tuter, tuve, tuyer, uber, zuberi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tuber" (pronounced 'Tu"ber'): Accumber, Antenumber, Assober, Beblubber, Berber, Beslabber, Beslobber, Beslubber, Bibber, Blabber, Blobber, Bobber, Clubber, Clumber, Crabber, Craber, Dabber, December, Encomber, Encumber, fibber, Gabber, grabber, jobber, Liber, lubber, Megaweber, Microweber, Milliweber, Misnumber, misremember, Nonmember, November, October, Outnumber, remember, robber, rubber, Scomber, Scraber, scrubber, Sea-blubber, September, Slibber, stabber, Swobber, Unencumber, Unlimber, Unmember, Webber. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: brute, buret, rebut. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: brut, bute, rube, true, tube. | |
-2 letters: bet, bur, but, reb, ret, rub, rue, rut, tub, urb. | |
-3 letters: be, er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: arbute, brunet, bruted, brutes, bunter, burets, burnet, buster, butler, butter, rebuts, tubber, tubers. | |
+2 letters: abutter, arbutes, becrust, becurst, blunter, blurted, blurter, bluster, briquet, bruited, bruiter, brunets, brutely, bunters, burette, burkite, burnets, bursate, bursted, burster, burthen, busters, bustier, butcher, butlers, butlery, butters, buttery, doubter, embrute, imbrute, obtrude, obtuser, outbred, perturb, puberty, rebuilt, redoubt, rubiest, subrent, subtler, subvert, terbium, tribune, tribute, trouble, tubbers, tubbier, tumbler, tumbrel, turbeth, turbine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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