Defn: A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
TUBING
Tub"ing, n.
1. The act of making tubes.
2. A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
TUBIPORA Tu*bip"o*ra, n. Etym: [NL., from L. tubus tube + porus passage, pore.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
TUBIPORE
Tu"bi*pore, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tubipore.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any species of the genus Tubipora.
TUBIPORITE
Tu"bi*po*rite, n. (Paleon.)
Defn: Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.