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  • English Word Tubicolous Definition Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms.
  • English Word Tubicorn Definition Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
  • English Word Tubicornous Definition Having hollow horns.
  • English Word Tubiform Definition Having the form of a tube; tubeform.
  • English Word Tubinares Definition A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
  • English Word Tubing Definition of Tube
  • English Word Tubing Definition The act of making tubes.
  • English Word Tubing Definition A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
  • English Word Tubipora Definition A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
  • English Word Tubipore Definition Any species of the genus Tubipora.
  • English Word Tubiporite Definition Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
  • English Word Tubivalve Definition A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.
  • English Word Tubman Definition One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.
  • English Word Tubmen Definition of Tubman
  • English Word Tubular Definition Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
  • English Word Tubularia Definition A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.
  • English Word Tubulariae Definition See Tubularida.
  • English Word Tubularian Definition Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
  • English Word Tubularian Definition Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
  • English Word Tubularida Definition An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae.
  • English Word Tubulate Definition Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.
  • English Word Tubulated Definition Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening.
  • English Word Tubulation Definition The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort.
  • English Word Tubulature Definition A tubulure.
  • English Word Tubule Definition A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
  • English Word Tubule Definition A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
  • English Word Tubulibranchian Definition One of the Tubulibranchiata.
  • English Word Tubulibranchiata Definition A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.
  • English Word Tubulicole Definition Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.
  • English Word Tubulidentate Definition Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.