tuber

See also: Tuber

English

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo͞oʹbə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: to͞oʹbə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈtubɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Latin tūber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Noun

tuber (plural tubers or (uncommon, possibly obsolete) tubera)

1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
2. (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.
3. (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

Derived terms

• storage tuber
• supertuberation
• tuber cinereum
• tuber fleeceflower
• tuberization

Related terms

• tubercle
• tubercular

Translations

fleshy underground stem

Albanian: zhardhok (sq) m Armenian: կոճղեզ (hy) (kočġez), պալար (hy) (palar) Belarusian: бу́льба (be) f (búlʹba), клу́бень m (klúbjenʹ), бу́льбіна f (búlʹbina) Bikol Central: duma (bcl) Bulgarian: клу́бен m (klúben), грудка f (grudka) Burmese: ဥ (my) (u.) Catalan: tubercle (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 塊莖 / 块茎 (zh) (kuàijīng), 塊根 / 块根 (zh) (kuàigēn), 球根 (zh) (qiúgēn) Czech: bulva (cs) f, hlíza (cs) f Danish: knold Dutch: knol (nl) Finnish: mukula (fi) French: tubercule (fr) Georgian: ბოლქვი (bolkvi), გორგლი (gorgli) German: Knolle (de) f, Wurzelknolle f Hungarian: gumó (hu) Ido: tuberkulo (io) Indonesian: umbi (id) Irish: tiúbar m Italian: tubero (it) m Japanese: 芋 (ja) (いも, imo) Kannada: ಗಡ್ಡೆ (kn) (gaḍḍe) Khmer: មើម (km) (məəm) Korean: 괴경 (goegyeong) Lao: ມັນ (man) Malay: ubi (ms), tuber (ms) Malayalam: കിഴങ്ങ് (ml) (kiḻaṅṅŭ) Maori: kōpura, tinaku Norwegian: Bokmål: knoll (no) m Nynorsk: knoll m Polish: bulwa (pl) f Portuguese: tubérculo (pt) Russian: клу́бень (ru) m (klúbenʹ) Spanish: tubérculo (es), auyama (es) f (edible) Swedish: knöl (sv) c, rotknöl c, stamknöl c (botanical, e.g. potato), pålrot (sv) c (botanical, e.g. carrot), rotfrukt (sv) c (common, edible underground parts) Tagalog: busnginsuloy, lamang-lupa Tamil: கிழங்கு (ta) (kiḻaṅku) Telugu: దుంప (te) (dumpa) Thai: มัน (th) (man) Turkish: yumru (tr) Ukrainian: бу́льба (uk) f (búlʹba) Vietnamese: củ (vi) Welsh: cloronen f

horticulture: thickened rootstock

Finnish: mukula (fi)

anatomy: rounded, protuberant structure in body

Bulgarian: буца (bg) f (buca) French: protubérance (fr) Polish: guz (pl)

Etymology 2

tube +‎ -er

Noun

tuber (plural tubers)

1. One who tubes.

Anagrams

• Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

French

Etymology

From tube +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.be/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

tuber

1. to make into a tube shape
2. to put into a tube

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuber (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tuber
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tubant /ty.bɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tubé /ty.be/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tube /tyb/	tubes /tyb/	tube /tyb/	tubons /ty.bɔ̃/	tubez /ty.be/	tubent /tyb/
	imperfect	tubais /ty.bɛ/	tubais /ty.bɛ/	tubait /ty.bɛ/	tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/	tubiez /ty.bje/	tubaient /ty.bɛ/
	past historic2	tubai /ty.be/	tubas /ty.ba/	tuba /ty.ba/	tubâmes /ty.bam/	tubâtes /ty.bat/	tubèrent /ty.bɛʁ/
	future	tuberai /ty.bʁe/	tuberas /ty.bʁa/	tubera /ty.bʁa/	tuberons /ty.bʁɔ̃/	tuberez /ty.bʁe/	tuberont /ty.bʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/	tuberais /ty.bʁɛ/	tuberait /ty.bʁɛ/	tuberions /ty.bə.ʁjɔ̃/	tuberiez /ty.bə.ʁje/	tuberaient /ty.bʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tube /tyb/	tubes /tyb/	tube /tyb/	tubions /ty.bjɔ̃/	tubiez /ty.bje/	tubent /tyb/
	imperfect2	tubasse /ty.bas/	tubasses /ty.bas/	tubât /ty.ba/	tubassions /ty.ba.sjɔ̃/	tubassiez /ty.ba.sje/	tubassent /ty.bas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tube /tyb/	—	tubons /ty.bɔ̃/	tubez /ty.be/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “tuber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brute, buter, rebut