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Tuber vs Trochanter - What's the difference?

tuber | trochanter |

As nouns the difference between tuber and trochanter

is that tuber is a fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot while trochanter is in vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.

tuber

English

(wikipedia tuber)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.
  • (horticulture) A thickened "root-stock".

    • Related terms

    * tubercle * tubercular

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    trochanter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.
  • In some arthropods, the second segment of the leg, between the coxa and the femur.