Webster's Dictionary 1913

5482

Tuberculose

{ Tu‐ber″cu‐lose′ (?), Tu‐ber″cu‐lous (?), } a. Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.

5483

Tuberculosed

Tu‐ber″cu‐losed′ (?), a.(Med.) Affected with tuberculosis.

5484

Tuberculosis

‖Tu‐ber′cu‐lo″sis (?), n. [NL. See Tubercle.] (Med.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, w...

5485

Tuberculous (2)

Tu‐ber″cu‐lous (?), a.(Med.) Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis.

5486

Tuberculum

‖Tu‐ber″cu‐lum (?), n.; pl.Tubercula (#). [L., dim. of tuber a swelling.] (Zoöl.) A tubercle.

5487

Tuberiferous

Tu′ber‐if″er‐ous (?), a. [Tuber + -ferous.] Producing or bearing tubers.

5488

Tuberose

Tube″rose′ (?), n. [Cf. G. tuberose, F. tubéreuse, NL. Polianthes tuberosa. See Tuberous.] (Bot.) A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It ...

5489

Tuberose (2)

Tu″ber‐ose′ (?), a. Tuberous.

5490

Tuberosity

Tu′ber‐os″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Tuberosities (#). [Cf. F. tubérosité.] 1. The state of being tuberous.2. An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.

5491

Tuberous

Tu″ber‐ous (?), a. [L. tuberosus: cf. F. tubéreux. See Tuber, and cf. also Tuberose.]1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.2. (Bot.) Consisting of, or bearing,...

5492

Tubeworm

Tube″worm′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolæ.

5493

Tubfish

Tub″fish′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.

5494

Tubful

Tub″ful (?), n.; pl.Tubfuls (�). As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.

5495

Tubicinate

Tu‐bic″i‐nate (?), v. i. [L. tubicen trumpeter.] To blow a trumpet.

5496

Tubicolæ

‖Tu‐bic″o‐læ (?), n. pl. [L. tubus a tube + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anteri...

5497

Tubicolar

Tu‐bic″o‐lar (?), a.(Zoöl.) Tubicolous.

5498

Tubicole

Tu″bi‐cole (?), n.(Zoöl.) One of the Tubicolæ.

5499

Tubicolous

Tu‐bic″o‐lous (?), a. [See Tubicolæ.] (Zoöl.) Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms.

5500

Tubicorn

Tu″bi‐corn (?), n. [L. tubus tube + cornu horn: cf. F. tubicorne.] (Zoöl.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

5501

Tubicornous

Tu″bi‐corn′ous (?), a. Having hollow horns.

5502

Tubiform

Tu″bi‐form (?), a. Having the form of a tube; tubeform. “Tubiform cells.” Carpenter.

5503

Tubinares

Tu′bi‐na″res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tubus tube + nares the nostrils.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds ...

5504

Tubing

Tub″ing (?), n. 1. The act of making tubes.2. A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

5505

Tubipora

‖Tu‐bip″o‐ra (?), n. [NL., from L. tubus tube + porus passage, pore.] (Zoöl.) A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mas...

5506

Tubipore

Tu″bi‐pore (?), n. [Cf. F. tubipore.] (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Tubipora.

5507

Tubiporite

Tu″bi‐po‐rite (?), n.(Paleon.) Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

5508

Tubivalve

Tu″bi‐valve (?), n. [See Tube, Valve.] (Zoöl.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.