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Definition of Tuberous
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a tuber. "A tuberous root"
Definition of Tuberous
1. a. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
Definition of Tuberous
1. Adjective. Of, relating to, resembling, or producing tubers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tuberous
1. pertaining to a tuber [adj] - See also: tuber
Medical Definition of Tuberous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuberous
Literary usage of Tuberous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America: Containing Full Descriptions of by Fearing Burr (1874)
"German Rampion. Jerusalem Artichoke. Oxalis, tuberous. ... Sweet Potato.
tuberous-rooted Chickling Vetch. tuberous-rooted ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"tuberous sclerosis is a gliomatosis, which may be neoplastic, though this is not
certain (Vogt). Nut-sized firm masses, often quite prominent, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Other important papers on the tuberous species are Berthault, Recher- ches
botaniques sur les varietes cultivees du Solanum tuberosum et les ..."
4. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"W. A section of the tuberous form in Fig. 456. For the microscopical appearances of
... It is found in the gland as an infiltrating and tuberous growth. ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Smooth herb, with a wand-like stem from a (bitter) thick and abrupt tuberous
rootstock, terminated by a wand- like spiked raceme (1-3 dm. long) of small ..."
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