Definition of tube

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Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

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Excurrent :: Excurrent (a.) Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube..
Bump :: Bump (n.) A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance..
Burette :: Burette (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock..
Sheathed :: Sheathed (a.) Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate..
Synapta :: Synanthrose (n.) A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae..
Reed :: Reed (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
Sprout :: Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch..
Core :: Core (n.) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern..
Mammillated :: Mammillated (a.) Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae..
Spire :: Spire (n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
Tube-shell :: Tube-shell (n.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell..
Tube :: Tube (n.) A telescope.
Miliary :: Miliary (a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini..
Gibbous :: Gibbous (a.) Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon..
Capillarity :: Capillarity (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction..
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
Cowish :: Cowish (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon..
Antiperistaltic :: Antiperistaltic (a.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube..
Tubing :: Tubing (n.) The act of making tubes.
Embossed :: Embossed (a.) Swollen; protuberant.
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