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TUBEROUS
tuberous
(adjective) of or relating to or resembling a tuber; “a tuberous root”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tuberous (not comparable)
Relating to, resembling, or producing tubers
Relating to tuberosities
Anagrams
• bus route, busroute, subroute
Source: Wiktionary
Tu"ber*ous, a. Etym: [L. tuberosus: cf. F. tubéreux. See Tuber, and cf. also Tuberose.]
1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.
– Tu"ber*ous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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