tuber
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Anyway, a casual tuber or kayaker can’t float all the way to the Pacific from Forestville.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
When the weather gets cooler after a hot period, instead of the main potato tuber growing "it tends to grow a little knobble on the end".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
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 30% increase in tuber mass observed in our field trials shows the promise of improving photosynthesis to enable climate-ready crops."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
The skins seemed to slip off easily enough for Aunty Ifeoma, but when I pressed one end of a tuber, the rough brown skin stayed put and the heat stung my palms.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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