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▪ I. tubulate, a. Nat. Hist.|ˈtjuːbjʊlət|
[ad. L. tubulāt-us, f. tubul-us tubule: see -ate2.]
Formed into or like a tube; tubular.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App. s.v. Petal, The tubulate bell-fashioned flowers. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xxii. (1765) 124 Syngenesia... Characters of the Florets... Corolla..is either tubulate..; ligulate [etc.]. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 151 A few tubulate pores over the surface. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 74 The group of the Tubulate Corals is now much reduced in numbers.
▪ II. tubulate, v.|ˈtjuːbjʊleɪt|
[f. as prec.: see -ate3; cf. tubulation.]
trans. a. To form into a tube. b. ‘To furnish with a tube’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
1802W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIII. 207 A wooden cullender..the orifices of which have in the center a wire or skewer, which tubulates the extruded dough [macaroni]. |