different between tuber vs vegetable

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English vegetable, from Old French vegetable, from Latin veget?bilis (“able to live and grow”), derived from veget?re (“to enliven”). Displaced Old English wyrt (“herb, vegetable, plant, crop, root”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?d???t?b?l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?v?d???t?b?l/, /?v?d??t?b?l/, /?v?t??t?b?l/

Noun

vegetable (plural vegetables)

1. Any plant.
   • 1837, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)

     That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.

2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

3. The edible part of such a plant.

   Synonyms: veg, veggie

4. (figuratively, derogatory) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a person in a persistent vegetative state.

   Synonym: cabbage

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

vegetable (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to plants.
2. Of or relating to vegetables.

Translations

Further reading

• vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vegetable (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia