Nat. Hist. [ad. L. tubulāt-us, f. tubul-us TUBULE: see -ATE2.] Formed into or like a tube; tubular.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., App. s.v. Petal, The tubulate bell-fashioned flowers.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., II. xxii. (1765), 124. Syngenesia…. Characters of the Florets…. Corolla … is either tubulate...; ligulate [etc.].

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 151. A few tubulate pores over the surface.

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1872.  Nicholson, Palæont., 74. The group of the Tubulate Corals is now much reduced in numbers.

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