tuber 的定义
- Botany. a fleshy, usually oblong or rounded thickening or outgrowth, as the potato, of a subterranean stem or shoot, bearing minute scalelike leaves with buds or eyes in their axils from which new plants may arise.
- Anatomy. a rounded swelling or protuberance; a tuberosity; a tubercle.
tuber 近义词
vegetable
更多tuber例句
- I saw it again, 6,000 miles away, on the dry Tanzania savanna with Hadzabe families, who forage for tubers and baobab seeds.
- Workers dig elaborate underground tunnels in search of tubers to eat.
- Those groups balance out their diets by also eating tubers, roots and other plant foods that they store during the short summers to carry them through frigid winter months.
- Because that whole system is sealed, the potato tubers don’t carry any soil- or insect-vectored diseases.
- This year he agreed to take me into the woods to forage for these precious tubers.
- Some blamed that innocent tuber with derailing her attempts at projecting an “authentic” image.
- I feel like they are the alchemist of the tuber world; they make everything from smooth, soft purees to beautiful crunchy pickles.
- As in, when the waiter approaches the table holding aloft an innocent-looking tuber and asks, “Should I keep shaving?”
- The flour of any species of corn, pulse, tuber, or starchy root.
- This tuber has the celery flavor in a pronounced degree, and is used for flavoring soups and for celery salad.
- They will take root at each joint of vine, when undisturbed, which roots will draw from the main tuber.
- Sometimes it attacks the potato, eating down the stalk into the tuber.
- This skin is produced by the action of the surface cells of the tuber.