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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Inhabiting a tube or tubular structure.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, inhabiting a tube; tubicole; tubicolar; spinning a tubular web, as a spider; secreting a tubular case, as an annelid or a rotifer; having a tubular or fistulous shell, as a mollusk. See Tubicolæ, tube-shell, and cuts under Protula and Serpula.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Inhabiting a tube.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Inhabiting a tube.

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