different between arrowroot vs tuber

English

Etymology

From Arawak aru-aru (literally “meal of meals”), influenced by arrow +? root because the plant’s “roots” (more accurately rhizomes) are used on wounds from poison darts to absorb the poison.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æ??(?)?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?o???ut/
• Hyphenation: ar?row?root

Noun

arrowroot (countable and uncountable, plural arrowroots)

1. (countable, uncountable) Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long. [from late 17th c.]
2. (countable, uncountable) Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu).
3. (uncountable) A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener.

Alternative forms

• arrow-root

Derived terms

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• arrowroot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Maranta arundinacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

From Latin t?ber (“bump, hump, swelling”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tyo?o'b?(r), IPA^(key): /tju?b?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?b?(r)

Noun

tuber (plural tubers)

1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.
2. (horticulture) A thickened rootstock.
3. (anatomy) A rounded, protuberant structure in a human or animal body.

Related terms

• tubercle
• tubercular

Translations

Anagrams

• Ubert, brute, buret, rebut

French

Etymology

From tube +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.be/

Verb

tuber

1. to make into a tube shape
2. to put into a tube

Conjugation

Further reading

• “tuber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• brute, buter, rebut

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *t??os, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh?- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]

Noun

t?ber n (genitive t?beris); third declension

1. a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence
2. the cyclamen or other similar plants with tuberous roots
3. a truffle (any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See tubus

Alternative forms

• tubur

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t??b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ber/, [?t?u?b?r]

Noun

tuber m or f (genitive tuberis); third declension

1. (usually feminine) a kind of tree or bush of foreign origin, possibly the azarole (Crataegus azarolus)
2. (usually masculine) the fruit of the above tree

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• tuber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tuber in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tuber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette