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Definition of Tuberous plant
1. Noun. Plant growing from a tuber.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuberous Plant
Literary usage of Tuberous plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Useful Plants of Japan Described and Illustrated by Dai Nihon Nōkai (1895)
"Satn-imo, Hatake-imo; a cultivated tuberous plant of the order Araceae embracing
several varieties. It resembles very much To-no-imor but is quite green ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1904)
"... while Michaux, more than a century since, recognized that the northern tuberous
plant was specifically separable from the rarely tuberous Z. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"tuberous plant from Colombia. GW Oliver, in his "Plant Culture," remarks that
this stove ornamental plant should be more used for decorative purposes than ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"tuberous plant from Colombia. QW Oliver, in his "Plant Culture,"remarks that this
stove ornamental plant should be more used for decorative purposes than it ..."
5. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... South African tuberous plant. After Engler. organs that are produced subsequent
to the cotyledons ; as the plant apparently may attain an age of 100 ..."
6. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"It is a tuberous plant with one leaf and one flower only. Tho flower is rose-colored
and has something of the appearance of a Cypripedium, ..."
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