Tuber 
Turmeric 
Tu’ber (Lat., a tumour), a thickened 
and short subterranean branch, be- 
set with buds or ‘‘eyes”; Tu’ber- 
cle, Tuber’culum (Lat.), (1) a little 
same as Neck (5); tubuliflo’rous, 
-rus ( flos, floris, a flower) = tubiflo- 
rous ; tubuliform’is (forma, shape), 
= tubiform. 
Tuft, used by Withering for Crmz; 
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. 
Tiille (Ger.) = TYLosz. 
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 (twmescens, swelling up), 
somewhat tumid. 
tu’mid, tw’midus (Lat., swollen), in- 
flated, swollen. 
Tunic, Tun'ica (Lat., an under-gar- 
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- 
erescences, as the seeds of Silene ; 
Pri‘mary Tu’bercle, is used by Treub 
to denote an ovoid body formed by 
the germination of the spore of 
Lycopodium ; Tu’bercorm(+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, 
tubercula‘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; tuberiferous (/ero, 
I bear), tuber-bearing; Tubero- 
gem’ma (+GeEmMa), 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, pl. of Tub’us, the hymenial 
tubes of such Fungi as Polyporus ; 
tubifio‘rous, -rus (jlos, 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, pl. Tub’uli (Lat., a small 
pipe), (1) the pores or hymenial 
tubes of some Hymenomycetous 
Fungi, as Polyporus; (2) in Pyre- 
nomycetes, the prolonged apex of 
perithecium pierced by a canal, the 
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turfa’ceus, turfo’sus, 
turgid, tur’gidus 
ment), (1) 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 
Burs. 
tur’binate, turbina’/tus (Lat., cone- 
shaped); turbiniform’is (forma, 
shape), shaped like a top. 
= TORFACEUS, 
growing in bogs. 
Turges’cence (twrgesco, I swell), the 
distention of a cell or cellular 
tissue by water or other liquid; 
turges’cent, becoming turgid. 
(Lat., inflated), 
swollen, but not with air; Tur’gor 
(Lat.), turgidity, turgescence. 
Turion, 7'w’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 Curcwma longa, 
