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tuber enlarged tip of a rhizome (underground stem) that stores food. Although much modified in structure, the tuber contains all the usual stem parts—bark, wood, pith, nodes, and internodes. The eyes of a potato tuber are nodes where sprouts appear, and they are arranged in the same spiral pattern characteristic of buds on an aerial stem.

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A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | Â© A Dictionary of Nursing 2008, originally published by Oxford University Press 2008. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

tuber (tew-ber) n. (in anatomy) a thickened or swollen part.

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tuber A swollen stem or root that functions as an underground storage organ. Stem tubers (e.g. in potatoes) often produce buds from which aerial stems arise the following season. Root tubers produce no buds, or produce buds only at the point where the tuber is attached to the stem of the plant.

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