tuber root

Questions about tuber root

What does tuber root mean?

tuber root means "erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers".

What is another word for tuber root?

Close synonyms include butterfly weed, orange milkweed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, pleurisy root. 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 root a common word?

tuber root 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.