tuberosum
/too-ber-OH-sum/🏷️ Taxonomy● Basic
Also known as: tuberosus, tuberosa
A morphological epithet marking a plant that stores food in tubers, swollen underground stems or roots that also serve for vegetative increase, and the neuter form used where the genus is neuter. The epithet often signals an edible or storage crop. Appears as tuberosus (masculine), tuberosa (feminine), or tuberosum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin tuber, meaning "a lump or swelling."
Example
“Solanum tuberosum (potato) and Allium tuberosum (garlic chives) show the neuter ending their genera require.”