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8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers
originEtymology tree Latin tūber Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos Latin -ōsus Latin tūberōsusbor. English tuberose Borrowed from Latin tūberōsus (“tuberous”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- obtuser 9
- berets 8
- besort 8
- bourse 8
- brutes 8
- burets 8
- bustee 8
- buster 8
- buteos 8
- obtuse 8
- rebuts 8
- robust 8