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tubiform

American  
[too-buh-fawrm, tyoo-] / ˈtu bəˌfɔrm, ˈtju- /

adjective

  1. shaped like a tube.


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Etymology

Origin of tubiform

First recorded in 1735–45; tubi- + -form

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The pileus is thin, flexible, tubiform, hollow to the base, blackish-brown, sometimes a little scaly, the hymenium even or somewhat wrinkled, cinereous.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Spores white, on ground, fleshy, tubiform, cap blackish, scaly, stem hollow, Craterellus Cornucopioides.

From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Dallas, Ellen M.

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