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- Tuber - n. - A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
- Tuber - n. - A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
- Tuber - n. - A tuberosity; a tubercle.
- Tubercle - n. - A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.
- Tubercle - n. - A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.
- Tubercled - a. - Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.
- Tubercula - pl. - of Tuberculum
- Tubercular - a. - Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
- Tubercular - a. - Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
- Tubercular - a. - Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
- Tuberculate - a. - Alt. of Tuberculated
- Tuberculated - a. - Tubercled; tubercular.
- Tuberculin - n. - A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.
- Tuberculization - n. - The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.
- Tuberculose - a. - Alt. of Tuberculous
- Tuberculosis - n. - A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.
- Tuberculous - a. - Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.
- Tuberculum - n. - A tubercle.
- Tuberiferous - a. - Producing or bearing tubers.
- Tuberose - n. - A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.
- Tuberose - a. - Tuberous.
- Tuberosities - pl. - of Tuberosity
- Tuberosity - n. - The state of being tuberous.
- Tuberosity - n. - An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.
- Tuberous - a. - Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
- Yam - n. - A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
- Galangal - n. - The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.
- Orchis - n. - A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. 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. See Orchidaceous.
- Wapatoo - n. - The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.
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- H6119 עָקֵב - 6119 עָקֵב - עָקֵב - - ʻâqêb - aw-kabe' - or (feminine) עִקְּבָה; from עָקַב; a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track; figuratively, the rear (of an army); heel, (horse-) hoof, last, lier in wait (by mistake for עָקֵב), (foot-) step. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7166 קַרְסֹל - 7166 קַרְסֹל - קַרְסֹל - - qarçôl - kar-sole' - from קָרַס; an ankle (as a protuberance or joint); foot. - Noun Feminine - heb