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

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tubulated

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

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

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

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 Samuel Johnson

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