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▪ I. tuberose, n.
(ˈtjuːbərəʊs, often incorrectly ˈtjuːbrəʊz)
Also 7 tuberuse, -euse, (tuber-rose).
[ad. L. tūberōsa, the specific name of the plant (see below), fem. of tūberōsus (see next); corrupted by popular etymology into a disyllable, as if f. tube + rose, and so most commonly pronounced. (In the obs. forms tuberuse, -euse, a. F. tubéreuse, ad. L. tūberōsa.)]
A liliaceous plant, Polianthes tuberosa, with creamy white, funnel-shaped, very fragrant flowers, and a tuberous root; a native of the East Indies, cultivated in southern Europe and the southern U.S., and in northern parts as a greenhouse plant.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. 200 Now take out your Indian Tuberoses, parting the Off-sets. Ibid. 208 Tuber-rose. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2654/4 There are lately brought from Italy several Orange and Limon Trees,..Onions of Tubereuse. a1718Prior Solomon i. 80 The smelling Tub'rose and Junquele declare, The stronger Impulse of an Evening Air. a1763Shenstone Ode to Sir R. Lyttelton xiii, So would some tuberose delight, That struck the pilgrim's wondering sight. 1820Shelley Sensit. Plant i. x, The jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose. 1873H. E. H. King Disciples, Ugo Bassi ii. (1877) 66 In the cool shadow heaps of tuberose Lay by the fountains in the market-place.
b. A perfume extracted from the flowers of this.
1682A. Behn City Heiress 22 Sprinkle my Handkercher with Tuberuse. 1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xix, Stooping to pick it [a handkerchief] up, he inhaled the delicate, tenacious perfume of tube-rose.
▪ II. tuberose, a.|ˈtjuːbərəʊs|
[ad. L. tūberōs-us, f. tūber, tuber2: see -ose1.]
= tuberous; tuberose sclerosis = tuberous sclerosis s.v. tuberous a. 2.
1704[see tuber2 1 b]. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 259 Indurated [Calx of Arsenic]... Found Massive, or Stalactitic with a tuberose or botryoidal surface. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 670 A tuberose root, as exemplified in the turnip and carrot. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. xv. 381 The tuberose muscles of the flanks. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxvii. 574 Vincent..found it [i.e. the parasite of mycetoma] in the unbroken tuberose swellings under the skin. 1933W. R. Brain Dis. Nervous Syst. ix. 487 Beyond the fact that tuberose sclerosis is due to a congenital abnormality..little is known about its aetiology. 1963Lancet 12 Jan. 67/2 When in the Royal Air Force during the war I saw a man with tuberose sclerosis it was not unexpected to find in his son evidence of the same, genetically determined, disorder.
Comb.1806J. Galpine Brit. Bot. §77 Symphytum..tuberosum, tuberose-rooted. |