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tuber

noun as in vegetable

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The distinctive tangy taste of attiéké comes from the cassava tubers mixed with fermented cassava, which gives it its unique flavour and texture.

From BBC

A team from the University of Illinois has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions.

These defensive chemicals are found inside cells throughout the cassava plant's leaves, stem and tubers, where they usually sit idle.

From Salon

Cedar just smiled at me as she nibbled on a cattail tuber.

Grizzlies once roamed the North Cascades in great numbers, digging up tubers, foraging for berries and going about their business as ecosystem engineers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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