Pl. tubuli. [dim. of L. tubus TUBE.]
1. = TUBULE; in Entom. a tubular ovipositor.
[1681. trans. Willis’ Rem. Med. Wks., Vocab., Tubuli, small little pipes, the veins and very small arteries, or little hollow parts of the bowels so called.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Tubuli Lactiferi, certain Lactiferous … Pipes … through which [the milk] flows to the Nipples.]
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. xxxiii. 390. Tubulus. A tubular ovipositor, consisting of several pieces often retractile within each other, like the tubes of a telescope.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 565. The tubuli serving to convey nutrition from the pulp to the periphery.
2. = TUBULURE.
c. 1900. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sc., IV. 784. A small tubulated receiver, from the tubulus of which a tube … is in air-tight communication.
