tuberous

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tuba

Latin tubusder.

Middle French tubeder.

English tube

English -er

English tuber

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Old French -usbor.

Middle English -ous

English -ous

English tuberous

From tuber + -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt(j)uːbəɹəs/

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Adjective

tuberous (comparative more tuberous, superlative most tuberous)

1. Relating to, resembling, or producing tubers.
2. Relating to tuberosities.
   • 1962, Philip Larkin, Sunny Prestatyn:

     Huge tits and a fissured crotch / Were scored well in, and the space / Between her legs held scrawls / That set her fairly astride / A tuberous cock and balls

Derived terms

• intertuberous
• sacrotuberous
• semituberous
• tuberously
• tuberousness
• tuberous sclerosis

Translations

relating to tubers

• Finnish: mukulamainen, mukula- (fi) (resembling); mukula- (fi) (relating or producing)
• Russian: клубнево́й (ru) (klubnevój)

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