Tuber

See also: tuber

Translingual

Black Truffle (Tuber melanosporum)

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 125322^nd 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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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