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tubulate

American  
[too-byuh-lit, -layt, tyoo-, too-byuh-layt, tyoo-] / ˈtu bjə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˈtju-, ˈtu bjəˌleɪt, ˈtju- /

adjective

  1. Also tubulated. shaped like or having a tube.


verb (used with object)

tubulated, tubulating
  1. to form into or furnish with a tube.

tubulate British  

verb

  1. to form or shape into a tube

  2. to fit or furnish with a tube

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. a less common word for tubular

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of tubulate

1745–55; < Latin tubulātus; see tubule, -ate 1


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It consists of a tubulated glass retort A, Pl.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier

This ingrowth may from the beginning possess a tubular structure, but in other instances may start as a solid column of cells which subsequently Glands. becomes tubulated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

Carpenter. a, Original tubulated wall or “Nummuline layer.”

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson

Oxygen is absorbed by stick phosphorus contained in a tubulated pipette filled with water.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

In such cases, we employ a tubulated retort A, Pl.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier

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