Definition of tube

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Tube (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance..

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Ball :: Ball (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot..
Bulge :: Bulge (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall..
Miliary :: Miliary (a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini..
Tube-nosed :: Tube-nosed (a.) Belonging to the Tubinares.
Expander :: Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc..
Stenostome :: Stenosis (n.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic..
Epiphyllum :: Epiphyllum (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation..
Breast :: Breast (n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat..
Testiculate :: Testiculate (a.) Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis..
Spirable :: Spiodea (n. pl.) An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes..
Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..
Scrobicula :: Scrobicula (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.
Teat :: Teat (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
Burette :: Burette (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..
Transpiration :: Transpiration (n.) The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes..
Uriniparous :: Uriniparous (a.) Producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney..
Miliary :: Miliary (n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.
Diapophysis :: Diapophysis (n.) The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra..
Siphonium :: Siphonium (n.) A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible..
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