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S: (n) tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)

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S: (n) stalk, stem (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ)

S: (n) gynophore (the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle)

S: (n) carpophore (a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel)
S: (n) cornstalk, corn stalk (the stalk of a corn plant)
S: (n) filament (the stalk of a stamen)
S: (n) funicle, funiculus (the stalk of a plant ovule or seed)
S: (n) petiolule (the stalk of a leaflet)

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S: (n) cane (a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane)
S: (n) sporangiophore (stalk bearing one or more sporangia)
S: (n) cutting, slip (a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting)
S: (n) tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)
S: (n) rhizome, rootstock, rootstalk (a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure)
S: (n) axis (the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged)
S: (n) caudex (woody stem of palms and tree ferns)
S: (n) beanstalk (stem of a bean plant)
S: (n) cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade (a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf)
S: (n) stock, caudex (persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant)
S: (n) stipe (supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap)
S: (n) scape, flower stalk (erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip)
S: (n) petiole, leafstalk (the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf)
S: (n) bulb (a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure)
S: (n) corm (solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure)
S: (n) branch (a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant)
S: (n) culm (stem of plants of the Gramineae)
S: (n) haulm, halm (stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding)
S: (n) trunk, tree trunk, bole (the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber)

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S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)

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