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One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.

Belonging to the Tubinares.

Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.

of Tube

In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.

A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

A tuberosity; a tubercle.

A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.

A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.

Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

of Tuberculum

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.

Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.

Alt. of Tuberculated

Tubercled; tubercular.

A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.