tubularia

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tubularia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tubularia \Tu`bu*la"ri*a\, n. [NL.] (Zool.)
     A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths
     at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The
     gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the
     outer tentacles.
     [1913 Webster]