[
US
/ˈtubɝ/
]
[ UK /tjˈuːbɐ/ ]
[ UK /tjˈuːbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
How To Use tuber In A Sentence
- Another protuberance outlined with two vertical incisions serves as a nose, and a horizontal slash suggests a mouth.
- Gastric lavage for isolation of M tuberculosis is a well accepted method.
- In this course will be considered diphtheria, small-pox, the insect carriers of disease, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and uncinariasis. The University of Virginia Record
- lunger" out here, and I didn't relish the idea of sleeping in a tuberculous bed. The Prairie Wife
- Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed.
- Fracas, that mother of all big floral scents, the strange, kinky Diva Tubereuse Criminelle, and the lustrously beautiful Carnal Flower. Archive 2007-07-01
- Acid-fast staining should be done if tuberculosis is clinically suspected.
- Skeletal tuberculosis is a haematogenous infection and affects almost all bones.
- The loss of the plant led to thousands of children dying from malaria, tuberculosis and other treatable diseases.
- Alternatively, the faculty might have contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis or varicella, and could infect patients.