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Definition of Tuberoid
1. pertaining to a tuber [adj] - See also: tuber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuberoid
Literary usage of Tuberoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Perennials, often with corms or with tuberoid roots ; sometimes rootless saprophytes.
— A cosmopolitan family comprising about 7000 species largely ..."
2. A System of Surgery: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative by Samuel David Gross (1882)
"Scirrhus appears under several varieties of form, as the tuberoid, stratiform,
... The best example of the tuberoid variety occurs in the mamma. ..."
3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by Frank Marion Anderson, California Academy of Sciences (1863)
"... some perfect young specimens displays a nucleus so like Odostomia that, despite
tlio resemblance of the shell to Passants, which has a tuberoid nucleus, ..."
4. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1846)
""In the tuberoid form, the most common, as we have just stated, of all, the
heterologous substance forms small circumscribed nodules, ..."
5. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia Wilmotte Henderson Henshaw (1915)
"ORCHIS FAMILY Perennial herbs, often with corms or tuberoid roots, sometimes
rootless saprophytes; leaves paralleled-nerved, solitary or several, alternate; ..."
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