Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tubular or tubuliform; fistulous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border.
- adjective Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets.
- adjective a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from
tubular boiler .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
tubulous .
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Examples
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Hymenium usually below (or on the outer surface when the plant is spread over the substratum), honey-combed, porous, tubulose, or reticulate; in one genus with short, concentric plates.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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