tuber
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When the weather gets cooler after a hot period, instead of the main potato tuber growing "it tends to grow a little knobble on the end".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
What appears to have started as one man’s idea of a joke has spread in recent years, with more households offering the tuber in an effort to give the festivities a topsy-turvy spin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
The movie starts in fictional Chuglass, Idaho, the “potato chip capital of America,” where a giant tuber mascot looms over the town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
A team from the University of Illinois has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
In gathering wild yams, they cut off most of the edible tuber but replaced the stems and tops of the tubers in the ground so that the tubers would regrow.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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