tubérculo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈbɛʁ.ku.lu/ [tuˈbɛh.ku.lu]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /tuˈbɛɾ.ku.lu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /tuˈbɛʁ.ku.lu/ [tuˈbɛχ.ku.lu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈbɛɻ.ku.lo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈbɛɾ.ku.lu/ [tuˈβɛɾ.ku.lu]

Noun

tubérculo m (plural tubérculos)

(botany) tuber (fleshy underground stem)
(botany) tubercle (small rounded protuberance on certain plants)
(anatomy) tubercle (small rounded protuberance on a bone)
(pathology) tubercle (small nodule produced by tuberculosis)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tuberculum, diminutive of tuber,.

Noun

tubérculo m (plural tubérculos)

(anatomy, botany, pathology, mycology) tubercle

Derived terms

tuberculoso

Related terms

tuberculosis

Further reading

“tubérculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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