Definition of tube

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Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla..

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Foralite :: Foralite (n.) A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata..
Tubipora :: Tubipora (n.) A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans..
Bull Brier :: Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier..
Mygale :: Mygale (n.) A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii)..
Calibrate :: Calibrate (v. i.) To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments..
Extuberate :: Extuberate (v. i.) To swell out.
Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.].
Capillary :: Capillary (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute..
Protuberancy :: Protuberancy (n.) The quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence.
Ranz Des Vaches :: Ranz des vaches () The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung..
Caloriduct :: Caloriduct (n.) A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
Collimator :: Collimator (n.) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used..
Tuberculum :: Tuberculum (n.) A tubercle.
Connector :: Connector (n.) A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.
Bulge :: Bulge (v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..
Tuberosity :: Tuberosity (n.) An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.
Depression :: Depression (n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions..
Oca :: Oca (n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers..
Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..
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