tubiform

[too-buh-fawrm, tyoo-]

adjective

1. shaped like a tube.

Other Word Forms

• subtubiform adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of tubiform¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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See trial. trying, a. severe, distressing, hard, irksome, afflictive, ordeal. trysting-place, n. rendezvous. tub, n. firkin, keeler, keelfat, keeve, vat, piggin. tube, n. pipe; valinch. tubular, a. tubiform, fistular, cannular. tuft, n. knot, bunch, clump; tussock, crest. tug, n. trace; pull, effort. tumble, v. heave, toss, roll, pitch; topple. tumble-down, a.

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