Tuber 



Turmeric 



Tu'ber 'Lat., a tumour), a thickened 

 and sKort subterranean branch, be- 

 set with buds or " eyes " ; Tu'ber- 

 cle, Tuber' culum (Lat.), (1) a little 

 tuber ; (2) a wart-like apothecium 

 in Verrucaria ; (3) any similar ex- 

 crescence, as on roots, ascribed to 

 the action of symbiotic organisms; 

 tu'bercled, covered with warty ex- 

 crescences, as the seeds of Silene ; 

 Pri'mary Tu'bercle, is used byTreub 

 to denote an ovoid body formed by 

 the germination of the spore of 

 Lycopodium;Ta"bercorni( + CORM), 

 J. Smith's name for such fleshy 

 roots as the beet, yam, and tur- 

 nip ; tuber'cular, having tubercles 

 or like a tubercle ; tuber'culate, 

 tuber cula' tus, beset with knobby 

 projections or excrescences ; Tu'b- 

 ercule, a tuberous root, as of the 

 Dahlia, (Crozier) ; tuber'culose, 

 tuber' culous, consisting of or hav- 

 ing tubercles ; tuberif'erous (fero, 

 I bear), tuber-bearing ; Tubero- 

 gem'ma ( + GEMMA), a bud-like 

 tuber, occurring in the axil of 

 the leaves, or as a root-tubercle, 

 which asexually propagates the 

 plant, as in Ranunculus Ficaria, 

 Linn. ; tu'berose, tubero'sus, tu'- 

 berous (Lat., full of humps), (1) 

 producing tubers ; (2) resembling 

 a tuber. 



Tub'i, pi. of Tub'us, the hymenial 

 tubes of such Fungi as Polyporus ; 

 tubiflo'rous, -rus (flos, floris, a 

 flower), when the florets are tub- 

 ular, as in many Compositae ; tu'- 

 biform, tubiform'is (forma, shape), 

 tube - shaped ; Tubil'lus, (1) an 

 elongated cell of cellular tissue ; 

 (2) the tube of the filaments in 

 Compositae ; tu'bular, tubula'tus, 

 apparently a cylindrical figure and 

 hollow ; ~Flo'ret, in Compositae a 

 disk or regular floret. 



Tub'ulus, pi. Tub'uli (Lat., a small 

 pipe), (1) the pores or hymenial 

 tubes of some Hyraenomycetous 

 Fungi, as Polyporus ; (2) in Pyre- 

 nomycetes, the prolonged apex of 

 perithecium pierced by a canal, the 



same as NECK (5) ; tubuliflo'rous, 

 -rus (flos, floris, a flower) = tubiflo- 

 rous ; tubuliform'is (forma, shape), 

 = tubiform. 



Tuft, used by Withering for CYME ; 

 tuft'ed, caespitose ; ~ Hairs, a modi- 

 fication of stellate hairs, but 

 branched from the base upwards 

 (Weiss). 



tu'itans (tueor, I defend), when leaves 

 assume the sleep-position, appear- 

 ing to guard the stem. 



Tulle (Ger.) = TYLOSE. 



Tum'ble- weeds, a name applied to 

 certain weeds which break adrift 

 when dry, and are blown to a dis- 

 tance, scattering their seeds by the 

 way. 



tumes'cent (tumescens, swelling up), 

 somewhat tumid. 



tu'mld, tu'midus (Lat., swollen), in- 

 flated, swollen. 



Tu'nic, Tun'ica (Lat., an under-gar- 

 ment), (I) the skin of a seed, the 

 spermoderm ; (2) any loose mem- 

 branous skin not formed from the 

 epidermis (Lindley) ; (3) the coat 

 of a bulb ; (4) the peridium of cer- 

 tain Fungi ; tu'nicate, tunica' tus 

 (Lat. ), having coats or tunics ; tu'ni- 

 cated is a synonym ; ~ Bulb, one 

 covered with complete enveloping 

 coats, as an onion ; cf. IMBRICATE 

 BULB. 



tur'binate, turbina'tus (Lat., cone- 

 shaped) ; turbiniform'is (forma, 

 shape), shaded like a top. 



turfa'ceus, turfo'sus, TORFACEUS, 

 growing in bogs. 



Turges'cence (turgesco, I swell), the 

 distention of a cell or cellular 

 tissue by water or other liquid ; 

 turges'cent, becoming turgid. 



tur'gid, tur'gidus (Lat., inflated), 

 swollen, but not with air ; Tur'gor 

 (Lat.), turgidity, turgescence. 



Tu'rion, Tu'rio (Lat., a shoot), a scaly 

 sucker, or shoot from the ground, 

 as Asparagus ; turionif'erous, -rus 

 (fero, I bear), throwing up turions. 



Turm'eric (said to be from terra 

 merita, valuable earth), the pow- 

 dered rhizome of Curcuma longa, 



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