tuber
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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
"The 30% increase in tuber mass observed in our field trials shows the promise of improving photosynthesis to enable climate-ready crops."
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
There are also types with different tuber sizes, growth rates, starch production and drought tolerance.
From Salon • May 6, 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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