Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or relating to or resembling a tuber;
- Example: "a tuberous root"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tuberous \Tu"ber*ous\, a. [L. tuberosus: cf. F. tub['e]reux. See
Tuber, and cf. also Tuberose.]
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1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
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2. (Bot.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a
tuber.
[1913 Webster] -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tuberous
adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a tuber; "a tuberous
root"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuberous":
botanic, bulbous, burled, cereal, farinaceous, fruitlike, fruity,
gnarled, gnarly, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby,
knobbed, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly,
leguminose, leguminous, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodular, nodulated,
noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, plantlike, radicated, radiciform,
radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, studded, torose, tubercular,
tuberculous, tuberose, vegetable, vegetal, vegetarian,
vegetational, vegetative, weedy