TUBER
What does "TUBER" mean?
A thickened underground plant stem, such as a potato, that stores nutrients.
Meanings
- A swollen, fleshy underground stem or root that stores food and can sprout new plants. Each potato is a tuber, dotted with eyes that can grow.
- A rounded swelling or nodule on a body part (anatomy). The bone showed a small tuber at the muscle attachment. technical
Did you know?
- A potato is a stem, not a root: each 'eye' is a bud, so a single tuber buried in soil can sprout a whole new plant from those dots.
Word origin
From Latin 'tuber' (a lump, swelling, or bump), the same word that names the truffle genus.
Remember it
TUBER is buried like a TUBE underground - and a potato really is a swollen stem-tube, eyes and all.
A little poem
Buried, eyeless dark-
and yet a hundred small eyes
wait there to push up.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is a tuber the best secret-keeper? It buries everything underground and only opens up through its eyes.
What it teaches
What looks like a lump in the dark may be the only part of you that knows how to grow.
Quick facts
What does TUBER mean?
A thickened underground plant stem, such as a potato, that stores nutrients.
Is TUBER a valid word?
Yes — TUBER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TUBER?
TUBER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does TUBER come from?
From Latin 'tuber' (a lump, swelling, or bump), the same word that names the truffle genus.
What can TUBER teach us?
What looks like a lump in the dark may be the only part of you that knows how to grow.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.