Tubers is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TUBERS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• TUBER, an underground stem which has been modified for storage of nutrients, such as a potato
• a much thickened underground part of a stem or rhizome, e.g. in the potato, serving as a food reserve and bearing buds from which new plants arise.
• a tuberous root, e.g. of the dahlia.
• a rounded swelling or protuberant part
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a thick underground stem

Words related to TUBERS

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How to use TUBERS in a sentence

• The tubers, being abundant in the market-gardens, are to be had at little more than the price of potatoes.
• In France this manufacture is carried on pretty extensively, and five hundred pounds of the tubers will produce twelve quarts of spirit, the pulp being given to cattle.
• It is on this starch that the nutritive properties of the tubers depend.
• Carrots, Turnips, Potatoes, and all root vegetables and tubers, are best cooked by steaming.
• The little party was digging tubers from the ground.
• It may be increased by separating the tubers after the tops have died down, and planting them while they are fresh.
• Another way to propagate them is to place the old tubers in soil over a hotbed early in March.
• When the shoots are a couple of inches high the tubers may be taken up and divided with a sharp knife.
• At the beginning of February stand the tubers on end in shallow boxes, and expose them to the light to induce the growth of short, hard, purple sprouts.
• When the foliage fails, keep the tubers dry till spring.
• If grown out of doors the tubers must be lifted before frost sets in.
• Sturdy healthy growth is essential to the formation of a crop of tubers, and if the plants be forced into an attenuated condition the labour will have been in vain.
• But certain varieties produce few tubers of seed size, and when large they must be divided in such a manner as to insure at least two eyes in each set.
• Thus, with a little extra trouble, sound tubers have been prepared for planting, and the main reasons for taking this extra trouble are doubtless fully apparent.
• The tubers do not mature until late in autumn, and as far as possible it is advisable to lift them when they are wanted.
• The seedlings grow freely and quickly, and will flower quite as early as those grown by the more lengthy and troublesome method from tubers.
• Their food, which consisted of tubers, bulbs, and fruits, was to me inexpressibly disagreeable, but nothing offended them so much as to show dislike to it.
• It is nocturnal in its habits, and in the vicinity of cultivation does much damage to such garden stuff as consists of tubers or roots.
• The gardener obeyed, and in doing so first learnt the value of their underground wholesome tubers.
• There are two sorts of tubers, the red and the white.
• I shall in the mean time assume and assert without hesitation or qualification that there are as many tubers below the surface as there are leaves above it.
• Some people take up the tubers every year in February or March, but this is unnecessary.
• Of these the tubers rank the highest in nutritive value.
• Roots and tubers should be well cleaned before paring.
• The tubers, which are about the size of our sweet potatoes, are dug up as needed, to replace or supplement rice in the daily menu.
• At this time there were no tubers nor any signs of them.
• We found no tubers on the plants grown out of doors till some time after the return of cold, wet weather.
• Tubers, roots, and even the seeds of the cereal grasses, are but moderately nutritious.
• A variety of other roots and tubers furnish them with food.

Similar words containing TUBER without suffix s

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