What is "tuberous"

Usage examples of "tuberous".

Its tuberous root has been found to contain a particular volatile acrid principle which exercises distinct medicinal effects, though these are altogether dissipated if the roots are subjected to heat by boiling or baking.

When the tuberous roots have become devoid of foliage they may be lifted, and if they have grown to a size exceeding 3in.

They hunted lizards and snakes and coneys, collected the juicy young pads of prickly pear and dug for tuberous roots in the dry tableland above the cliffs, picked samphire and watercress in the marshes by the margin of the river and waded out into the river's shallows and cast circular nets to catch fish, which they smoked on racks above fires built of creosote bush and pine chips.

Another food plant of enormous importance to tropical America in the present as well as in the past is Manihot utilissima, otherwise known as Manioc, Mandioca, or Yuca, from the tuberous root of which Cassava is prepared.

This plant is also known by the names of Pilot plant, Polar plant, Rosin and Turpentine weed, and like the Cup plant of another species, Silphium Loeve, with tuberous roots, which are a native food in the Columbia valley, is cultivated in English gardens.

I thought they were some kind of tuberous plant at first, or molting crustaceans, somehow trapped at 700 feet above sea level.

From these caverns into the depths of the skull, objects like some kind of tuberous plant seemed to grow.

Chote being a knee-high plant edible in leaf, fruit, and fat, sweet, tuberous root.