Definition of Tubiform

1. a. Having the form of a tube; tubeform.

Definition of Tubiform

1. Adjective. Having the form of a tube. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tubiform

1. tubular [adj] - See also: tubular

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubiform

tubfasts
tubfish
tubfishes
tubful
tubfuls
tubicolae
tubicolar
tubicole
tubicoles
tubicolous
tubifex
tubifexes
tubificid
tubificids
tubiform (current term)
tubing
tubings
tubipora
tubipore
tubipores
tubiporite
tubiporites
tubist
tubists
tubivalve
tubivalves
tubless
tublike

Literary usage of Tubiform

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1865)
"It is mainly on the sides and under-surfaces of blocks that the tubiform character is ... Of the cause of these tubiform vermicular cavities, no altogether ..."

2. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous Notes from the by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"The upper part of the surface of their body is covered with a vast number of email tubiform movable cylinders; having at their summit a roundish ..."

3. A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"... (forma, shape), = tubiform. Tuft, used by Withering for Стив ; tuft'ed, caespitose ; ~ Hairs, a modification of stellate hairs, but branched from the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1885)
"... ventrals with one ray each; snout conic or but slightly tubiform. ... Branchiostegal rays four; ventrals with four rays each; snout tubiform. ..."

5. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"Each plant is composed of an assemblage of long tubiform cells placed end to end, with a distinct ... The long tubiform cells of Nitella, and the terminal ..."

6. Principles of Comparative Physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1854)
"Thus in Achlya prolifera, a plant composed of tubiform cells which grows parasitically upon fish, the end of the filament dilates into a large cell, ..."

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