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Tube
(n.)
One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
Tube
(v. t.)
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Tube-nosed
(a.)
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny
tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
Tube-nosed
(a.)
Belonging to the Tubinares.
Tube-shell
(n.)
Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around
its siphon, as the watering-shell.
Tubed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Tube
Tubeform
(a.)
In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.
Tuber
(n.)
A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy
matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust.
of Tuberous.
Tuber
(n.)
A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
Tuber
(n.)
A tuberosity; a tubercle.
Tubercle
(n.)
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.
Tubercle
(n.)
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.
Tubercled
(a.)
Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate;
as, a tubercled lung or stalk.
Tubercula
(pl. )
of Tuberculum
Tubercular
(a.)
Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled;
tuberculate.
Tubercular
(a.)
Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
Tubercular
(a.)
Characterized by the development of tubercles; as,
tubercular diathesis.
Tuberculate
(a.)
Alt. of Tuberculated
Tuberculated
(a.)
Tubercled; tubercular.
Tuberculin
(n.)
A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of
the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.