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One of the two dorsal tubular organs on the hinder part of the abdomen of aphids. They give exit to the honeydew. See Illust. under Aphis.

Having tubular nostrils, as the petrels.

A tubular part made to cover, sustain, or steady another part, or to form a connection between two parts.

A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.

A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.

A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape and prevent clogging.

An order of Infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. They are usually stalked.

oducing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.

A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.

The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. Throat brails (Naut.), brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. -- Throat halyards (Naut.), halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.), the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the…

Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam. Trunnion plate (Gun.), a plate in the carriage of a gun, mortar, or howitzer, which covers the upper part of the cheek, and forms a bearing under the trunnion. -- Trunnion ring (Gun.), a ring on a cannon nex…

In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

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

Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.

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

Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.

Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous calicles.

s containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.