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Tube [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A pipe; a siphon; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal or glass, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes.

2. A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

3. In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed to the receptacle.

4. In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing.

Tube [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Tube [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

2. A telescope.

3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

4. The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

5. A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.

6. A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

7. A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.

8. One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

Tube [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tube-nosed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Belonging to the Tubinares.

Tube-shell [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tubed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tube

Tubeform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

Tuber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, a knob in roots, solid, with the component particles all similar.

Tuber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

3. A tuberosity; a tubercle.

Tubercle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A pimple; a small push, swelling or tumor on animal bodies.

2. A little knob, like a pimple, on plants; a little knob or rough point on the leaves of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification.

Tubercle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

Tubercle Encyclopedia Britannica

TUBERCLE. See Pathology, vol. xviii. p. 405, and Phthisis.

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Tubercled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tubercula [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tuberculum

Tubercular [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. TUBER'CULAR

2. TUBER'CULATE, adjective Having small knobs or pimples, as a plant.

Tubercular [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

2. Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.

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

Tuberculate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Tuberculated

Tuberculated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tubercled; tubercular.

Tuberculin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tuberculization [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

Tuberculose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Tuberculous

Tuberculosis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.

Tuberculous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Full of knobs or pimples.

2. Affected with tubercles.

Tuberculous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tuberculum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tubercle.

Tuberiferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Producing or bearing tubers.

Tuberose [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower, the Polianthus tuberosa; formerly called the tuberous hyacinth.

Tuberose [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tuberous.

Tuberose [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.

Tuberose Encyclopedia Britannica

TUBEROSE. The cultivated tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) is allied to the Mexican agaves and is a native of the same country. The tuberous root-stock sends up a stem 3 feet in height, with numerous lanceolate leaves and terminal racemes of white funnel-shaped, very fragrant flowers. Each flower is about 1½ inches long, with a long tube and a six-parted limb. The stamens are six in number, emerging from the upper part of the tube, and bear linear anthers. The ovary is three-celled; but the mature fruit and seed are not botanically known. The plant is largely grown in the United States and at the Cape of Good Hope for export to England, as it is found that imported bulbs succeed better than those grown in the United Kingdom. The cultivated plants have double flowers and require a rich soil, considerable heat, and, at first, abundance of water.

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