How to Use tuberous in a Sentence

tuberous

adjective

• Four O’Clock’ is to dig the tuberous roots in fall and store them in barely moist peat moss in an unheated garage.
  — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 21 June 2017
• Cover your tuberous roots with at least 1 ½ inches of soil.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
• Fuchsias and tuberous begonias are probably at the top of the list of plants worth saving.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2021
• The living plant, tuberous in shape like ginger, yields bright orange-yellow flesh.
  — Jenn Tanaka, Orange County Register, 22 June 2017
• Dig, clean and store tuberous begonias if frost threatens.
  — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2021
• Take fuchsia and tuberous begonias, two of the staples in Alaska containers that should not be hit by a frost and should be stored for the winter season.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2022
• When the episode aired in March 2021, Althea Grace was overwhelmed by responses of people dealing with tuberous sclerosis.
  — Susan Young, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
• Dig up corms and tubers of gladioli, dahlias and tuberous begonias after the foliage dies.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 20 Oct. 2017
• Sweet potatoes, indigenous to Central and South America, are tuberous roots and taste like carrots.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
• In Africa, the starch in similar dishes comes from tuberous root vegetables like cassava.
  — Eric Velasco, AL.com, 17 May 2017
• This plant is considered invasive in the Chicago area and is very difficult to eradicate because of its thick, tuberous roots.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• Tuberose, by the way, is a plant native to Mexico whose name refers to its tuberous roots, not at all to rose, and indeed, its smell is closer to that of lily, but with a fascinating camphorlike quality.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Oh, and don’t forget those fuchsia and other stored plants such as roses, tuberous begonias, rhodochitins, pelargoniums and yacons.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2022
• This plant is considered invasive in the Chicago region and is very difficult to eradicate because of its thick, tuberous roots.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
• The orchid, located in Madagascar, has no leaves, grows from a woolly tuberous stem, and spends most of its life underground, emerging only to flower or produce fruit.
  — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
• Angie Sinyard’s six-year-old daughter, Sophia Grace, has tuberous sclerosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors in the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, skin and lungs.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2017
• Angie Sinyard’s six-year-old daughter, Sophia Grace, has tuberous sclerosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumors in the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, skin and lungs.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Brains of fetuses that had died and had a genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis complex, which carries about an 80% chance of epilepsy, showed inflammation.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
• Two months after he was born, Zach was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex, a rare genetic disease that causes tumors to grow in the body’s major organ systems - skin, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain.
  — Taylor Goebel, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
• These wrinkled, marble-sized orbs are small, tuberous rhizomes of a sedge grass (cyperus esculentus lativum) that’s been cultivated for millennia around the world.
  — Stephanie Eckelkamp, Good Housekeeping, 17 Mar. 2017
• Planting/Propagation Plant dahlias, gladioli, and tuberous begonias in mid-May.
  — oregonlive, 4 May 2021
• Dig and store geraniums, tuberous begonias, dahlias, and gladiolas.
  — oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021
• Petunia, calibrachoa, tuberous begonia, the herb lavender, gladiolas and lilacs are among plants with violet tones.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 16 Jan. 2018
• Take everything out of storage: fuchsia, dahlias, tuberous begonias, pelargoniums, rhodochitons and spring flowering bulbs.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2020
• Two of the most popular tuberous begonias are the B. x tuberhybrida hybrids and varieties of the popular Begonia boliviensis.
  — Earl Nickel, SFChronicle.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• Flowering tuberous roots are dahlias, agapanthus and ranunculus.
  — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
• Plant summer bulbs, including gladiolus, tuberous begonias and callas.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 2 Mar. 2018
• The agency gave more funding to tuberous sclerosis, a rare genetic disorder that affects fewer than forty thousand Americans, and to osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle-bone disease, which affects some twenty thousand.
  — Mike Mariani, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• Days later, pathology results determined Isaiah had an extracardiac rhabdomyoma, a rare benign soft-tissue tumor caused by a genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
• Asiatic lilies, achimenes, African iris, agapanthus, amaryllis, Amazon lily, blackberry lily, blood lily, bulbine, caladium, canna, crinum, dahlia, eucharis lily, gingers, gladioli, gloriosa lily, society garlic, tuberous begonias, and rain lily 6.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024