tuber

Example Sentences

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What appears to have started as one man’s idea of a joke has spread in recent years, with more households offering the tuber in an effort to give the festivities a topsy-turvy spin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

The movie starts in fictional Chuglass, Idaho, the “potato chip capital of America,” where a giant tuber mascot looms over the town.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

If this is your first year growing these bountiful blooms, you might be questioning how to get from a gnarly potatolike tuber to armloads of cut flowers.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

For potatoes, maybe, but probably for something else decisively outside of the tuber realm.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

It comes from a stupendous tuber, which the women cultivate and dig from the ground, soak in the river, dry in the sun, pound to white powder in hollowed-out logs, and boil.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver