Tubular
(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.
Tubularia
(||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.
Tubulariæ
(||Tu`bu*la"ri*æ) n. pl. [NL.] See Tubularida.
Tubularian
(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.
Tubularian
(Tu`bu*la"ri*an), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
Tubularida
(||Tu"bu*lar`i*da) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; —
called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariæ.
Tubulate
(Tu"bu*late) a. [L. tubulatus. See Tubular.] Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.
Tubulated
(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.