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tube
  1. Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
  2. An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semi-liquid substances.
  3. (Tube) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
  4. (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer (or other beverage?).
  5. (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “A long tube was used to facilitate the movement of liquid from one container to the other.”
      “Let's spend some time in front of the tube. It doesn't matter what's on.”
tubing
  1. tubes, considered as a group
  2. a length of tube, or a system of tubes
  3. the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “These cages are made of aluminum tubing with a steel frame, and the door is made out of thin aluminum.”
tuber
  1. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot.
  2. (horticulture) A thickened "root-stock".
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The tuber from the wing-stalked yam is a valuable source of diosgenin.”
      “Potato tuber native periderm and immature wound periderm were very similar in basic organization.”
      “They were observed 6-7 layers below the suberized periderm and in the tuber portion far from the buds.”
tuberosity
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being tuberous
  2. (medicine) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “A sesamoid bone may develop in the bicipital tendon over the radial tuberosity.”
      “Fractures of the greater tuberosity may be best visualized with an axillary or a Y view.”
      “The sacrotuberous ligament is a cartilaginous attachment of the sacrum to the ischial tuberosity.”
tuberose
  1. A Mexican tuberous plant (Polianthes tuberosa) that has white flowers and grass-like leaves
  2. Examples:
    1. “Lavender is perfect for a summer afternoon, but a moonlit evening calls for the heady scent of gardenia or tuberose.”
      “In the perennial gardens, the use of colorful and fragrant plants, including gladiolus, iris, tuberose and alstroemeria, is abundant.”
      “This exotic-smelling one has notes of ginger, tuberose and cedarwood that last on the skin long after the water's stopped running.”
tubeway
  1. (science fiction) A system of interlinked tubes serving as a transport network.
tuberoid
  1. (botany) A tuber-like structure found on some orchids.
tubelight
  1. (chiefly India) A fluorescent lighting tube.
  2. Examples:
    1. “My first step will be to remove the insect killer tubelight setup on each floor, and issue a blanket ban on all insect repellants.”
tuberization
  1. (botany) The development of tubers.
tubework
  1. An assemblage of tubes.
tubelet
  1. A small, subsidiary tube
tubeful
  1. Enough to fill a tube.
tubes
tuberizations
  1. plural of tuberization
tuberosities
tuberoses
  1. plural of tuberose
tuberoids
  1. plural of tuberoid
tubefuls
  1. plural of tubeful
tubelets
  1. plural of tubelet
tubeways
  1. plural of tubeway
tubesful
  1. plural of tubeful
tubings
tubers
  1. plural of tuber
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Most slugs eat decaying vegetation, but readily switch to young or delicate plants, feeding on the leaves, stems, roots and tubers.”
      “They also eat leaves, shoots, roots, tubers, and seeds of most grasses and forbs, or broadleafed flowering plants.”
      “It has white flowers in a whorled, bracteate raceme, no spathe, roots with tubers.”
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