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Definition of Tube-shaped
1. Adjective. Constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids).
Similar to: Hollow
Derivative terms: Cannula, Tube
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tube-shaped
Literary usage of Tube-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Experiments: Illustrating the Theory, Practice, and Application of by George William Francis (1850)
"Put some of the materials from which chlorine mav be extracted, as above given,
into a tube shaped and supported as under, and let it be hermetically sealed ..."
2. The American Steel Worker: A Twenty-five Years' Experience in the Selection by Edward Russell Markham (1906)
"... several tube-shaped pieces of wire netting, as shown in Fig. 75. The tubes
were slightly larger inside than the diameter of the largest part of the tool ..."
3. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"2, roundish red flowers on plants from 20 to 24 inches high. E. vestita purpurea,
tube-shaped flower; plant from 20 to 24 inches high. BC 217. ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Thus the > is for y, mutated form of u. Bugle. A small tube-shaped glass bead.
The etymology of t hi- word is unknown, and no foreign word resembles it. ..."
5. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1856)
"Each blossom is tube shaped, an inch long; they are produced numerously, ...
The flowers are drooping, tube shaped, each being an inch and a quarter long, ..."
6. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"202, 1869) found that if the discharge took place in a tube shaped like Fig.
30, when the wire c Fig. 39. in the bulb was made the negative electrode, ..."
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