tuber
- n a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage
- n type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles
- As the frizzy-haired, tuber-nosed sidekick of Moe and Curly, Larry played an amiable idiot who spent most of his time dodging pies.
- Last year, Britain's Potato Council complained that the definition of couch potato implied that the nutritious tuber was inherently unhealthy, thus driving down business.
- How or when the humble tuber followed the silver to Europe is unclear, but by the early 17th century the stage was set there for a vast expansionary phase in the potato's history.