Crossword-Solution: TUBEROUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tuberous | a. | Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed. |
| Tuberous | a. | Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TUBEROUS | anagram | BUSROUTE |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZMEEA
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eruption
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Sentences with TUBEROUS (5)
Some great tuberous-rooted _Arums_* [Two species of _Arisaema,_ called "Tong" by the Tibetans, and "Sinkree" by the Lepchas.] were very abundant; and the ground was covered with small pits, in which were large wooden pestles: these are used in the preparation of food from the arums, to which the miserable inhabitants of the valley have recourse in spring, when their yaks are calving.
Large bees' nests hang from the rocks.] There is some cultivation here of potatoes, and of _Rhysicosia vestita_ a beautiful purple-flowered leguminous plant, with small tuberous roots.
Some great tuberous-rooted _Arums_[170] were very abundant; and the ground was covered with small pits, in which were large wooden pestles: these are used in the preparation of food from the arums, to which the miserable inhabitants of the valley have recourse in spring, when their yaks are calving.
There is some cultivation here of potatoes, and of _Rhysicosia vestita_ a beautiful purple-flowered leguminous plant, with small tuberous roots.
The produce of the bread-fruit tree can no more be considered as bread than plantains before the state of maturity, or the tuberous and amylaceous roots of the cassava, the dioscorea, the Convolvulus batatas, and the potato.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).