combining form of L. tubus TUBE, in modern scientific terms, chiefly zoological. Tubicolar, Tubicolous adjs. [mod.L. tubicola, f. colĕre to cultivate, inhabit], inhabiting a tube; applied to annelids and rotifers that secrete tubular cases, spiders that spin tubular webs (cf. tubitelar), and mollusks with shelly tubes (cf. TUBE-shell, tubivalve); so Tubicole a. = prec.; sb. a tubicolar annelid or mollusk. Tubicorn [L. cornū horn], sb. a hollow-horned ruminant; adj. hollow-horned, as a ruminant; also Tubicornous a. Tubifacient a. [L. facient-em making], making a tube for habitation, as a tubicolous annelid, etc. Tubifor [L. -fer bearing], an animal bearing a tube, as a tubicolous annelid; so Tubiferous a., bearing a tube or tubes. Tubiflorous a., Bot. [L. flōs, flōr- flower], having tubular flowers or florets, as the division Tubifloræ of composite plants (= TUBULIFLOROUS). Tubiform a., having the form of a tube; tube-shaped, tubular. Tubilingual a. [L. lingua tongue], belonging to the division Tubilingues of passerine birds, having long extensile tubular tongues used for sucking up honey. Tubinariai, Tubinarine adjs. [L. nāris nostril], belonging to the order Tubinārēs (Illiger, 1811) of water-birds, comprising the albatrosses and petrels, having nostrils of tubular form. Tubiparous a. [-PAROUS], producing a tube; applied to certain glands in tubicolous annelids, supposed to secrete the substance that forms the tube. Tubipore sb., a member of the genus Tubipora, family Tubiporidæ, or order Tubiporaceæ, of alcyonarians (the organ-pipe corals), in which each polyp has a tubular corallet opening by a pore; adj. belonging to or having the characters of this genus, family, or order; in quot., containing or formed of fossil tubipores; so Tubiporacean, -poraceous adjs., belonging to the order Tubiporaceæ; Tubiporid, a coral of the family Tubiporidæ; Tubiporite [-ITE1 2 a], a fossil tubipore; Tubiporoid a. [-OID], resembling or allied to the genus Tubipora; Tubiporous a. = tubipore adj. Tubitelar a. [L. tēla web], belonging to the division Tubitelæ or Tubitelariæ of spiders, which spin tubular webs; so Tubitelarian a. = prec.; sb. a spider of this division (Cent. Dict., 1891). Tubivalve, sb. a bivalve mollusk having a shelly tube in addition to the valves of the shell; a tube-shell; adj. having such a tube.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 619/1. A common marine *tubicolar worm.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., v. 238. The tubicolar Annelids possess neither proboscis nor teeth.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., *Tubicoles, Tubicola, the name of an order of Annelidans, comprehending those which live in tubes…; also the name of a family of … Mollusks, including those which have a tubular calcareous sheath in addition to the two shelly valves.
1864. Webster, Tubicole,… one of an order of annelides most of which live in shelly tubes.
1891. Cent. Dict., Tubicole, a. and n.
1870. H. Spencer, Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2), I. I. i. 6. The *tubicolous Annelids.
1881. E. R. Lankester, in Jrnl. Microsc. Sc., Jan., 123. The proximal region of the stomach … was infested by a remarkable little free swimming, yet tubicolous Rotifer.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., *Tubicorns, Tubicornia,… Ruminants comprehending those in which the horns are composed of a horny axis covered with a horny sheath.
1891. Cent. Dict., Tubicorn,… a. hollow-horned, as a ruminant.
1864. Webster, *Tubicornous.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Tubifacient.
1899. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sc., etc., *Tubifers, Tubifera, the name given by Lamarck to an order of the class Polypi,… whose surface is … covered with retractile hollow tubes.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Tubiferus,… bearing tubes: *tubiferous.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 246. A Cyclostomatous Polyzoan,… which with its aggregated calcareous cells presents an appearance not unlike that of a small *tubiflorous flower belonging to a plant of the order Compositae.
1745. Needham, Microsc. Disc., Introd. 6. The Barnacle … a small *tubiform Animal,… adhering in Clusters to Rocks.
1880. Günther, Fishes, 57. A pair of small tubiform bones, the turbinals.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Tubilingual.
1882. W. A. Forbes, in Rep. Challenger Exped., Zool., IV. 64. One branch of this stock has since become greatly modified in the *Tubinarial direction.
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict., *Tubinarine.
1890. Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sc., June, 186, note. Such thoracic nephridia in other sedentary annelids have been called *‘tubiparous glands’ by Claparède and others.
1800. Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XC. 333. In the interstices of the *Tubipore.
1846. Dana, Zooph., iv. (1848), 68. In the Tubipores, the polyps form, by their secretions, parallel tubes.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xviii. 353. The tubipore cherts and flints of the mountain limestone.
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict., *Tubiporid.
1828. Webster, *Tubiporite.
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict., *Tubiporoid.
1848. Smart, *Tubiporous, pertaining to, or resembling tubipores.
1882. Ogilvie, *Tubivalve, an annelid [sic: read mollusc] of the order Tubicolidæ.
1891. Cent. Dict., Tubivalve n. and a.
