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TUBER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles

Synonyms:

genus Tuber; Tuber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Tuber" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Tuber"):

earth-ball; earthnut; truffle (any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe)

Holonyms ("Tuber" is a member of...):

family Tuberaceae; Tuberaceae (family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tuber" is a kind of...):

stalk; stem (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tuber"):

water chestnut (edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant)

groundnut; potato bean; wild bean (nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans)

Jerusalem artichoke (edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke)

yam (edible tuber of any of several yams)

Derivation:

tuberous (of or relating to or resembling a tuber)

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