Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inhabiting a tube or a tubular web, as a spider; tubicolar or tubicolous, as an annelid.
- noun A tubicolous annelid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Tubicolæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any member of the Tubicolae.
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Examples
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-- The marine _Annelides_ of the island have not as yet been investigated; a cursory glance, however, amongst the stones, on the beach at Trincomalie and in the pools that afford convenient basins for examining them, would lead to the belief that the marine species are not numerous; tubicole genera, as well as some nereids, are found, but there seems to be little diversity, though it is not impossible that a closer scrutiny might be repaid by the discovery of some interesting forms.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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-- The marine _Annelides_ of the island have not as yet been investigated; a cursory glance, however, amongst the stones on the beach at Trincomalie and in the pools, which afford convenient basins for examining them, would lead to the belief that the marine species are not numerous; tubicole genera, as well as some nereids, are found, but there seems to be little diversity; though it is not impossible that a closer scrutiny might be repaid by the discovery of some interesting forms.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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