tuber

1. A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage (synset 113149124)
   is a type of: stalk, stem - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
   subtypes:

   • water chestnut - edible bulbous tuber of a Chinese marsh plant
   • groundnut, potato bean, wild bean - nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
   • jerusalem artichoke - edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
   • yam - edible tuber of any of several yams
2. Type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles (synset 113005996)
   is a type of: fungus genus - includes lichen genera
   member holonym: earth-ball, earthnut, truffle - any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
   belongs to: family tuberaceae, tuberaceae - family of fungi whose ascocarps resemble tubers and vary in size from that of an acorn to that of a large apple
   same as: genus tuber

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