List of synonyms from "tube" to synonyms from "tumbler"
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Definition of the day : « tuber »
- noun vegetable
- In kitchen-gardens it is planted like the potato, the tuber being cut in pieces.
- Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
- It is found in the tuber of the dahlia, in the dandelion, and some other plants.
- Extract from : « Elements of Agricultural Chemistry » by Thomas Anderson
- All of these may be grown from seed or by division of the tuber before planting.
- Extract from : « The Book of Bulbs » by Samuel Arnott
- Sometimes it attacks the potato, eating down the stalk into the tuber.
- Extract from : « The Moths of the British Isles, First Series » by Richard South
- This skin is produced by the action of the surface cells of the tuber.
- Extract from : « Parallel Paths » by Thomas William Rolleston
- Now let us take our tuber, slice it in half, and replace it in the earth again.
- Extract from : « Parallel Paths » by Thomas William Rolleston
- Chemically and physically these cells are just the same as the cells in the interior of the tuber.
- Extract from : « Parallel Paths » by Thomas William Rolleston
- A second crop of flowers need not be expected from a tuber that has borne one crop.
- Extract from : « ABC of Gardening » by Eben Eugene Rexford
- But I will tell you more about this class in connection with the bulb and tuber families.
- Extract from : « Gardening for Little Girls » by Olive Hyde Foster
- At no time should more than half the tuber be under the soil.
- Extract from : « The Practical Garden-Book » by C. E. Hunn