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Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.

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

Affected with tuberculosis.

, having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

Tumulous. [R.] Bailey.

To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes.

Not closed; not sealed; open. Byron.

To keep close or secret. [Obs.] Daniel.

One of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.

Full of venules, or small veins.

Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.

Minutely verrucose; as, a verruculose leaf or stalk.

Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.

See Villous.

Having long and slender trailing stems.

A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan; wood sugar.

poses; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.