— Tu"ber*ous*ness, n.
Tube"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a
shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
Tube"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of
the Tubicolæ.
Tub"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See
Illust. under Gurnard. [Prov. Eng.]
Tub"ful (?), n.; pl. Tubfuls (&?;). As much as a tub will hold; enough
to fill a tub.
Tu*bic"i*nate (?), v. i. [L. tubicen trumpeter.] To blow a trumpet.
||Tu*bic"o*læ (?), n. pl. [L. tubus a tube + colere to inhabit.]
||(Zoöl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and
||habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear
||gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See
||Serpula, and Sabella.
||
Tu*bic"o*lar (?), a. (Zoöl.) Tubicolous.
Tu"bi*cole (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Tubicolæ.
Tu*bic"o*lous (?), a. [See Tubicolæ.] (Zoöl.) Inhabiting a tube; as,
tubicolous worms.
Tu"bi*corn (?), n. [L. tubus tube + cornu horn: cf. F. tubicorne.]
(Zoöl.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with
a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
Tu"bi*corn`ous (?), a. Having hollow horns.
Tu"bi*form (?), a. Having the form of a tube; tubeform. "Tubiform
cells." Carpenter.
Tu`bi*na"res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tubus tube + nares the nostrils.]
(Zoöl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters,
albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
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Tub"ing (?), n. 1. The act of making tubes.
2. A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube;
material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
||Tu*bip"o*ra (?), n. [NL., from L. tubus tube + porus passage, pore.]
||(Zoöl.) 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.
||
Tu"bi*pore (?), n. [Cf. F. tubipore.] (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus
Tubipora.
Tu"bi*po*rite (?), n. (Paleon.) Any fossil coral of the genus
Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by
small transverse tubules.
Tu"bi*valve (?), n. [See Tube, Valve.] (Zoöl.) A shell or tube formed
by an annelid, as a serpula.
Tub"man (?), n.; pl. Tubmen (&?;). (Eng. Law) One of the two most
experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.
Tu"bu*lar (?), a. [L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, or pipe. See
Tube.] 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.
Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. — Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety
of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain
cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through
the trachea. — Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk
or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge
over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge
over the Menai Straits. — Tubular girder, a plate girder having two or
more vertical webs with a space between them.
||Tu`bu*la"ri*a (?), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) 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.
||
||Tu`bu*la"ri*æ (?), n. pl. [NL.] See Tubularida.
||
Tu`bu*la"ri*an (?), n. (Zool.) Any hydroid belonging to the suborder
Tubularida.
These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both
gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the
species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain
permanently attached as medusoid buds or sporosacs. See Illust. under
Gonosome, and Cymnoblastea.
Tu`bu*la"ri*an, a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
||Tu"bu*lar`i*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An extensive division of
||Hydroidea; the tubularians; — called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and
||Tubulariæ.
||
Tu"bu*late (?), a. [L. tubulatus. See Tubular.] Tubular; tubulated;
tubulous.
Tu"bu*la`ted (?), a. Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a
tube, or elongated opening.
Tubulated bottle or retort (Chem.), a bottle or retort having a
stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.
Tu`bu*la"tion (?), n. (Chem.) 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.
Tu"bu*la`ture (?), n. (Chem.) A tubulure.
Tu"bule (?), n. [F. tubule, or L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, a
pipe.] 1. A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
2. (Anat.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the
uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
Tu`bu*li*bran"chi*an (?), n. (Zool.) One of the Tubulibranchiata.
||Tu`bu*li*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. tubulus a little
||tube + branchia a gill.] (Zoöl.) A group of gastropod mollusks having
||a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.
||
Tu"bu*li*cole` (?), n. [L. tubulus little tube + colere to inhabit.]
(Zoöl.) Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.
Tu`bu*li*den"tate (?), a. [Tubule + dentate.] (Zoöl.) Having teeth
traversed by canals; — said of certain edentates.
Tu"bu*li*form` (?), a. [Cf. F. tubuliforme.] Having the form of a small
tube.
Tu"bu*li*pore" (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa
belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous
calicles.
{ Tu"bu*lose` (?), Tu"bu*lous (?), } a. [Cf. F. tubuleux. See Tubule.]
1. Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow;
specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often
expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.
2. Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.),
composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.
Tubulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing
water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; — sometimes distinguished
from tubular boiler.
Tu"bu*lure (?), n. [Cf. F. tubulure.] (Chem.) A short tubular opening
at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a
tubulation.
Tu*can" (?), n. (Zoöl.) The Mexican pocket gopher (Geomys Mexicanus).
It resembles the common pocket gopher of the Western United States, but
is larger. Called also tugan, and tuza.