adj
Meaning 1
tuberous
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tuberose
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General-American: /ˈtubəɹoʊz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbəɹəʊz/
noun
Meaning 2
Any plant in genera Polianthes or Manfreda (syns. of Agave), now both in Agave subg. Manfreda.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any plant in genera Polianthes or Manfreda (syns. of Agave), now both in Agave subg. Manfreda.
especially Agave amica (syn. Poliantes tuberosa), that has white flowers and grass-like leaves, used in perfumery.
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noun
Meaning 4
a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flower
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin tūber Proto-Indo-European *h3ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h3édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Latin tūberōsusbor. English tuberose Borrowed from Latin tūberōsus (“tuberous”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bengali: রজনীগন্ধা (rojnigondha) — Polianthes tuberosa
- Bulgarian: тубероза (tuberoza) — Polianthes tuberosa
- Catalan: nard — Polianthes tuberosa
- Czech: tuberóza — Polianthes tuberosa
- Finnish: tuberoosa — Polianthes tuberosa
- Finnish: tuberosa — Polianthes tuberosa
- French: tubéreuse — Polianthes tuberosa
- German: Tuberose — Polianthes tuberosa
- Hindi: रजनीगंधा (rajnīgandhā) — Polianthes tuberosa
- Hungarian: tubarózsa — Polianthes tuberosa
- Indonesian: sedap malam — Polianthes tuberosa
- Polish: tuberoza bulwiasta — Polianthes tuberosa
- Portuguese: nardo — Polianthes tuberosa
- Punjabi: رجنی گندھا (rjnī gndhā) — Polianthes tuberosa
- Romanian: tuberoză — Polianthes tuberosa
- Russian: тубероза (tuberoza) — Polianthes tuberosa
- Spanish: nardo — Polianthes tuberosa
- Turkish: sümbülteber — Polianthes tuberosa
- Ottoman Turkish: تبر (teber) — Polianthes tuberosa