Tuber
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Black Truffle (Tuber melanosporum)
See also: tuber
Translingual
Etymology
Latin tuber (“swelling, truffle”)
Proper noun
Tuber n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Tuberaceae – true truffles and close relatives.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom; Ascomycota - phylum; Pezizomycotina - subphylum; Pezizomycetes - class; Pezizales - order; Tuberaceae - family
Hyponyms
- For species see
Tuber on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or 
Tuber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Truffle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tuber on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tuber on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Tuber at MycoBank
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Tuber (plural Tubers)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Tuber is the 125322nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 187 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Tuber”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.