(botany, intransitive) To develop tubers.

(botany) The development of tubers.

The property of being tuberous.

(anatomy, neuroanatomy) The part of the hypothalamus to which the pituitary gland is attached

plural of tuber cinereum

A rare disease that causes benign tumors to grow in the human brain, kidneys, heart, liver, eyes, lungs and skin, caused by a mutation in the genes for the tumor growth suppressor proteins hamartin and tuberin.