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English noun: tuber

1. tuber (plant) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage


Broader (hypernym)stalk, stem


Narrower (hyponym)groundnut, Jerusalem artichoke, potato bean, water chestnut, wild bean, yam

2. Tuber (plant) type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles


Synonymsgenus Tuber


Broader (hypernym)fungus genus


Member holonymearth-ball, earthnut, truffle


Member meronymfamily Tuberaceae, Tuberaceae









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