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Tuberose

noun
1.
A tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers.  Synonym: Polianthes tuberosa.





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"Tuberose" Quotes from Famous Books



... ghost-gray, gossamer winger Of dusk's dim glimmer, How chill thy note sounds; how thy wings of shimmer Vibrate, soft-sighing, Meseems, for Summer that is dead or dying. I stand and listen, And at thy song the garden-beds, that glisten With rose and lily, Seem touched with sadness; and the tuberose chilly, Breathing around its cold and colorless breath, Fills the pale evening with wan ...
— Poems • Madison Cawein
... of orchard and wild fruits of comparatively inferior quality, chiefly used by the natives to make preserves. There is also a large variety of tuberose and other vegetable products, never eaten by Europeans, such as the favourite Sincamas (Decandria—Pachyrhizus angulatus), resembling a small turnip. The natives have a taste for ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman


Words linked to "Tuberose" :   Polianthes, genus Polianthes, flower, Polianthes tuberosa


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