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TUBULOUS

Definition: TUBULOUS

TUBULOUS

Adjective

1. Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.

2. Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: TUBULOUS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Opening

Tubular, cannular, fistulous; pervious, permeable; foraminous; vesicular, vasicular; porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled; tubulous, tubulated; piped, tubate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TUBULOUS

English words defined with "TUBULOUS": Tubulate, Tubulose. (references)

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Expression: TUBULOUS

Expression using "TUBULOUS": Tubulous boiler. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TUBULOUS

Language Translations for "TUBULOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tubulaer kirtel (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

glandula tubularis (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

French

  

glande tubuleuse (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

German

  

tubuloese Druese (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωληνοειδής αδένας (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ghiandola tubulare (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubuloustay

   

Portuguese

  

glândula tubulosa (tubulous gland). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

glándula tubulosa (tubulous gland). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TUBULOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-l-o-s-t-u-u-u"

-2 letters: sublot.

-3 letters: blots, bolts, bolus, bouts, lotus, louts, tolus.

-4 letters: blot, bolt, bots, bout, bust, buts, lobs, lost, lots, lout, lust, oust, outs, slob, slot, slub, slut, soul, stob, stub, sulu, tolu, tubs, ulus.

-5 letters: bos, bot, bus, but, lob, lot, out, sob, sol, sot, sou, sub, tub, ulu, uts.

 Words containing the letters "b-l-o-s-t-u-u-u"
 

+3 letters: tuberculous.

 

+4 letters: ubiquitously.

 

+5 letters: rumbustiously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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