Search the Dictionary

A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.

A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter. Eustachian catheter, a tubular instrument to be introduced into the Eustachian tube so as to allow of inflation of the middle ear through the nose or mouth. -- Eustrachian tube (Anat.), a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eusta…

Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

noise, as by powder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.

), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.

A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2…

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. Evelyn.

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

uctor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth.

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.

the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.

filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. T…