tuber

1. 1.

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

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2. 2.

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

   Synonymsgenus Tuber

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofTuberaceae

Other forms of tuber

plural

tubers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tuber

What does tuber mean?

tuber means "a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tuber?

tuber has 2 syllables: tu-ber. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˈtubɚ/.

What is another word for tuber?

Close synonyms include genus Tuber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tuber a common word?

tuber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.