Zool. [ad. mod.L. Tubulāria: see prec.] † a. ? A tubular species of coral. Obs. b. = TUBULARIAN sb.
1708. Phil. Trans., XXVI. 79. Tubularia, The Tubulary, or Lesser Pipe-shell.
[1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Tubularia Fossilis,… a species of coral found very often fossile in Germany and Italy, and composed of a great number of tubes.]
1876. Beneden’s Anim. Parasites, iv. 84. The tubulary observed by Gwyn Jeffreys … perhaps belongs to the same species.
