Tuber

//ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "tuber" (8 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (2)

Related words (4)

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6 relation types

More general

2 entries

Related terms

2 entries

derived

5 entries

has context

1 entries

is a

4 entries

related to

8 entries

Translations

64 translations across 43 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • zhardhok noun (fleshy underground stem)

Armenian

2 entries
  • կոճղեզ noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • պալար noun (fleshy underground stem)

Belarusian

3 entries
  • бу́льба noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • бу́льбіна noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • клу́бень noun (fleshy underground stem)

Bikol Central

1 entries
  • duma noun (fleshy underground stem)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • буца noun (anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body)
  • грудка noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • клу́бен noun (fleshy underground stem)

Burmese

1 entries
  • ဥ noun (fleshy underground stem)

Catalan

1 entries
  • tubercle noun (fleshy underground stem)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 塊根 /块根 noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • 塊莖 /块茎 noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • 球根 noun (fleshy underground stem)

Czech

2 entries
  • bulva noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • hlíza noun (fleshy underground stem)

Danish

1 entries
  • knold noun (fleshy underground stem)

Dutch

1 entries
  • knol noun (fleshy underground stem)

Finnish

2 entries
  • mukula noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • mukula noun (horticulture: thickened rootstock)

French

2 entries
  • protubérance noun (anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body)
  • tubercule noun (fleshy underground stem)

Georgian

2 entries
  • ბოლქვი noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • გორგლი noun (fleshy underground stem)

German

2 entries
  • Knolle noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • Wurzelknolle noun (fleshy underground stem)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • gumó noun (fleshy underground stem)

Ido

1 entries
  • tuberkulo noun (fleshy underground stem)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • umbi noun (fleshy underground stem)

Irish

1 entries
  • tiúbar noun (fleshy underground stem)

Italian

1 entries
  • tubero noun (fleshy underground stem)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 芋 noun (fleshy underground stem)

Kannada

1 entries
  • ಗಡ್ಡೆ noun (fleshy underground stem)

Khmer

1 entries
  • មើម noun (fleshy underground stem)

Korean

1 entries
  • 괴경 noun (fleshy underground stem)

Lao

1 entries
  • ມັນ noun (fleshy underground stem)

Malay

2 entries
  • tuber noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • ubi noun (fleshy underground stem)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • കിഴങ്ങ് noun (fleshy underground stem)

Māori

2 entries
  • kōpura noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • tinaku noun (fleshy underground stem)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • knoll noun (fleshy underground stem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • knoll noun (fleshy underground stem)

Polish

2 entries
  • bulwa noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • guz noun (anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • tubérculo noun (fleshy underground stem)

Russian

1 entries
  • клу́бень noun (fleshy underground stem)

Spanish

2 entries
  • auyama noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • tubérculo noun (fleshy underground stem)

Swedish

4 entries
  • knöl noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • pålrot noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • rotfrukt noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • rotknöl noun (fleshy underground stem)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • busnginsuloy noun (fleshy underground stem)
  • lamang-lupa noun (fleshy underground stem)

Tamil

1 entries
  • கிழங்கு noun (fleshy underground stem)

Telugu

1 entries
  • దుంప noun (fleshy underground stem)

Thai

1 entries
  • มัน noun (fleshy underground stem)

Turkish

1 entries
  • yumru noun (fleshy underground stem)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • бу́льба noun (fleshy underground stem)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • củ noun (fleshy underground stem)

Welsh

1 entries
  • cloronen noun (fleshy underground stem)

Sample sentences

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Our house in the red savannah outskirts of Quezon City stood by a cliff. Near that cliff was a bushy area, which the maids cut back with machetes. There were intriguing vines with spade-shaped purple leaves. They might have been tuber plants.

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Nature may have developed that edible storage organ, called a tuber, by modifying genes known to be present in other members of the potato family.

Source: tatoeba (12026547)

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