tuberose

noun

a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers

Roots

tubertuber- · Latin · swelling, lump, tuber osus-ose · Latin · full of, abounding in

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