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The act of making tubes.
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A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
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The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.
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One of the oil tubes in the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
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Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.
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The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
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One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
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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.
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Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters.
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A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
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Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
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A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes.
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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.
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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.
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Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.
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Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
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One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
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Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
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Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
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Producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney.
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