tuber.
exotic fruit; (azarole or oriental medlar); the bush (Crataegus azarolus); apple (L+S); fruit from a kind of apple-tree; kind of apple-tree; tumor, protuberance, bump, excrescence; truffle; plant with tuberous root;
Meaning & usage
a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
a truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber)
Where this word comes from
Probably from Proto-Italic *tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”) (though De Vaan is skeptical of the hypothetical morphology).
a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
the fruit of the above tree
Where this word comes from
See tubus.
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