Synonyms of the word tuber


TUBERSTALK - STEM

tuber

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

stalk

  • n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
  • n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
  • n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
  • n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
  • n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • n. (zoology).
  • n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
  • v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
  • n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  • n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
  • v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

stem

  • n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  • n. A branch of a family.
  • n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  • n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
  • n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
  • n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  • n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
  • n. (slang) A person's leg.
  • n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
  • n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
  • n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
  • n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
  • n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
  • n. (slang) A crack pipe.
  • v. To remove the stem from.
  • v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
  • v. To descend in a family line.
  • v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
  • v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
  • v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
  • v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
  • v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
  • n. Alternative form of steem.
  • n. Alternative form of STEM.

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