noun
: a thick fleshy root resembling a tuber but lacking buds or scale leaves, functioning especially in storage in biennial or perennial plants in which new growth is from a crown, and being simple and solitary (as in the beet or turnip) or variously fascicled (as in the dahlia) — compare fibrous root ; see root illustration
• tuberous-rooted | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective