Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a tube.
- noun In entomology, the mentum. or basal part of the labium, of a bee, forming with the bases of the maxillæ a tube leading to the epipharynx.
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Examples
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S, nang mã yari mamatai siya tubus sacasa lanan nang lahat na tauo.
Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593. Anonymous 1951
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Corolla: tubo hinc ad basin usque fisso; limbo unilabiato, 5-partito; laciniis lanceolatis, aequalibus, marginibus angustis induplicatis, extus uti tubus pubescentibus, intus glabris trinerviis, nervo medio venoso.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Petala sesquipollicaria, uti calycis tubus glanduloso-punctata glandulis nigricantibus semi-immersis, purpurea basibus atro purpureis margine barbatis.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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_Cor. _ tubus capillaris; limbus subæqualis, _Sem.
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772
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Corollularum tubus pilosulus, limbus to - tus revolutus.
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796
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Spathae propria a phyll. vaivuU interipre min.Cor. tubus lon«
Summa plantarum 1789
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Ham tubus a x • fuperat cylindrum xo; Tubus lam. tl item m Tfuparat cylindrum zi. drfic dereliquis pn lemmas.
Opera geometrica Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 1644
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