tubulate

American  

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

adjective

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

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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

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adjective

1. a less common word for tubular

Other Word Forms

• tubulation
  noun
• tubulator
  noun

Etymology

Origin of tubulate

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tubulated

From the resemblance of this tubulated layer to similar structures in the shell of the Nummulite, it is often spoken of as the "Nummuline layer."

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne

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

It is a rock perpendicularly tubulated, united on one side with a high shore, and on the other rising steep to a great height, above the main sea. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

It is curious that in the line of succession above stated, the beautiful tubulated cell-wall of Eozoon disappears; and this structure seems, after the Laurentian, to be for ever divorced from the great laminated Protozoans.

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

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 Lavoisier, Antoine