Measured by its chemical contents, it is one of the best foods of all the tuber group.
The starch of this tuber is very coarse and much softer, more soluble, and hence much more digestible than the starch of cereals or legumes.
The name is of record as that of a boundmark "two miles from the east side of a Great Pond," and is described as a "pond or swamp" to which the name of the tuberwas extended from its product.
Passapenoc, Pahpapaenpenock and Sapanakock, forms of the name of Beeren Island, lying opposite Coeymans, is from an edibletuber which was indigenous on it.
After a time some or much of the product may be accumulated in store for future growth, as in the root of the turnip, or the tuber of the potato, or the seed of corn or pulse.
Such a corm is like a tuberin budding from the sides, i.
Of course, there are all gradations between a tuberand a rootstock.
The morel is Morchella esculenta, and Tuber cibarium is the common truffle.
This is theTuber cibarium of science, and belongs to that numerous class of esculent fungi distinguished from other vegetables not only by the singularity of their forms, but by their chemical composition.
A single smalltuber will often have a hundred open flowers at a time.
A tuber which I carried in my pocket has often been my only provision for the day.
It is ordinarily best to cut the Potatoes to two or three eyes, leaving as much tuber as possible with each piece.
This tuber has the celery flavor in a pronounced degree, and is used for flavoring soups and for celery salad.
However, if started in loose soil or moss in a warm room or on benches of a greenhouse, the roots will soon start from the tuber and make a fine growth.
The sprouts when pulled from the tuber will be found to have rootlets at the lower end and along the stems.
From the leaf, inserted half its length in the soil (or sometimes only the petiole inserted) a tuber arises.
The tuberous-rooted varieties are propagated by division of the tuber or from seed, the former being rarely done except to increase the stock of some extra fine variety.
Mrs. Marrow," I explained to the greengrocer, "the famous tuber expert.
I shall take all these to the laboratory at the Food Controller's Headquarters, where Mrs. Marrow will submit each tuber to a meticulous test in order to satisfy herself as to its bona fides.
They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers.
The floor of the third ventricle is developed from the basal laminae, which here are not very important and from which the tuber cinereum and, until the fourth month, single corpus mammillare are developed.
I have taken from between his legs, at the bottom of his manor house, a real truffle the size of a hazelnut (Tuber Requienii, TUL.
Why such a thing as sex, when the tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke can do without it?
The enclosed shoot develops into a tuber which stands more or less vertical, and the scales become pretty little leaves.
Removing the paper, the tuber and leaves become green, and the latter enlarge a little.
By the end of the season the new tuber is rich and full to bursting, while the old one is withered, flaccid, and empty.
The tuberis oblong, like our kidney potato, and when boiled tastes exactly like our common potato.
Illustration: An Average Tuberof Table King, One of the Best All Around Potatoes.
There can be no growth oftuber without vigorous health of vine.
This is made from a root or tuber known as taro, which grows in swamps and has a leaf resembling our plant, commonly known as elephant's ear.
This tuber is ground to a pulp resembling paste and is served in polished wooden bowls, in the making of which the natives exhibit great skill.
Before planting them the mass of dried roots which will generally be found adhering to the base of the tuber should be cut away with a thin, sharp-bladed knife.
If this is not done, these roots often decay and the diseased condition will be communicated to the tuber and cause it to die, or, if death does not result, to become so unhealthy that it will fail to bloom.
A second crop of flowers need not be expected from a tuber that has borne one crop.
The vanishing tuber was bidden to answer the dietary roll-call: "Proteins?
As the result of one experiment the entire main stem springing from a sprouting tuber was converted into a new tuber nearly as large as the first.
The entire plant at the close of the experiment had the form of a dumb-bell, with the old tuber as one ball and the new tuber as the other.
The branches arising from the base of the main stem are generally underneath the surface of the soil, and afford the proper conditions for tuber formation.
If we submit a Potato tuber to a similar process, the result will be to find in the ashes fifty-nine per cent.
The relative values of different potatoes may be ascertained very correctly by weighing them in the hand, for the heavier the tuber the more starch it contains.
The second class embraces those of the tuber annulare, where the perception gives rise to motion without the interference of the intellectual faculties.
The Burbank potato is known in all lands where the tuber forms an article of food.
The flower-stalk springs from the midst of a few large spotted leaves, which terminate below in an irregular fleshy tuber of glutinous consistence.
From such vague data as we possess, I might loosely conjecture this tuber to be a thousand years old.
This tuber is shrivelled, and is in process of exhaustion and decay; but a horizontal stem has pushed out underground, which has at its extremity a second tuber, as yet immature, but plump and swelling.
The block itself is the tuber of a sort of yam, which grows above ground instead of below.
The various sclerotia, if kept moist, give rise to the fructifications of the fungi concerned, much as a potato tuber does to a potato plant, and in the same way the reserve materials are consumed.
Many of the fruit-bodies have a pleasant flavour and are eaten under the name of truffles (Tuber brumale and other species).
A rather thick slice of a tuber is almost as translucent as glass, and is seen to consist of large angular cells, full of water and not containing starch or any other solid matter.
We may therefore con- [page 440] clude that the tuber do not serve as reservoirs for food, but for water during the dry season to which the plant is probably exposed.
The other tuber was one-fourth shorter, one-eighth less thick in the direction in which it had been measured, and only half as thick in another direction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bulb; radix; root; seed; tap; taproot; tubercle
