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Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.

Affected with tuberculosis.

A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.

A tubercle.

Producing or bearing tubers.

A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.

The state of being tuberous.

Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n.

Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolæ.

The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard. [Prov. Eng.]

As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.

To blow a trumpet.

A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.

Tubicolous.

One of the Tubicolæ.

Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms.

Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

Having hollow horns.

Having the form of a tube; tubeform. "Tubiform cells." Carpenter.

birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.