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Definition of Tubers
1. tuber [n] - See also: tuber
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Literary usage of Tubers
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1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"The root.tubers of Isopyrum occidentale. DT MACDOUGAL. Soon after my recent paper
dealing with the physiology of the tubers of Isopyrum ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"It is to be borne in mind that propagation by tubers is not properly ... SCAB is
a disease of the tubers, which become covered with brown, oblong, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"tubers: Roundish oblong to elongate-flattened or spindle- shape flattened; ...
tubers: Long, cylindrical to somewhat flattened, inclined to be slightly ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"As a matter of fact, tubers represent at least as many potential plants as there
... Bulbs are underground stems differing from tubers and rhizomes in their ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The nature of these tubers is further rendered evident by the presence of ...
What the determining cause of the formation of the tubers may be is not known, ..."
6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"Thus light retards the formation of tubers on the potato1; darkness favours it.
Plants in which the formation of stolons has been hindered and from which ..."
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