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The act of making tubes.

skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Any species of the genus Tubipora.

Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.

One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.

Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes. Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. -- Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resemblin…

A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.

See Tubularida.

Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.

An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariæ.

Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.

Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening. Tubulated bottle or retort (Chem.), a bottle or retort having a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.

The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort.

A tubulure.

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

One of the Tubulibranchiata.

A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.

Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.

Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.