tubularian

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tubularian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tubularian \Tu`bu*la"ri*an\, a. (Zool.)
     Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
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  Tubularian \Tu`bu*la"ri*an\, n. (Zool.)
     Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
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     Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes,
           and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The
           gonophores of many of the species become free
           jellyfishes; those of other species remain permanently
           attached as medusoid buds or sporosacs. See Illust.
           under Gonosome, and Cymnoblastea.
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