TUBULARIAN
Tu`bu*la"ri*an, n. (Zool.)

Defn: Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.

Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain permanently attached as medusoid buds or sporosacs. See Illust. under Gonosome, and Cymnoblastea.

TUBULARIAN
Tu`bu*la"ri*an, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the tubularians.

TUBULARIDA
Tu"bu*lar`i*da, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; — called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariæ.

TUBULATE
Tu"bu*late, a. Etym: [L. tubulatus. See Tubular.]

Defn: Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.

TUBULATED
Tu"bu*la`ted, a.