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Tubercle vs Tuber - What's the difference?

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Tuber is a related term of tubercle.



As nouns the difference between tubercle and tuber

is that tubercle is a round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth while tuber is a fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.

tubercle

English

(wikipedia tubercle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
  • (botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
  • (pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

    • Synonyms

    * tuberculum * tuberosity * eminence * nodule

    tuber

    English

    (wikipedia tuber)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.
  • (horticulture) A thickened "root-stock".

    • Related terms

    * tubercle * tubercular

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