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tube foot
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Tube foot
(gcide) | Tube \Tube\, n. [L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube.]
1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the
conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a
pipe.
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2. A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." --Milton.
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3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid
or other substance.
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4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
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5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under
Priming, and Friction.
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6. (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler,
containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or
else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases
to pass through.
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7. (Zool.)
(a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case
secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans,
insects, and other animals, for protection or
concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
(b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
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8. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also
(Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [Chiefly Eng.]
Note: In the New York area, the subways running under the
Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube.
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Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.
Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue.
Tube coral. (Zool.) Same as Tubipore.
Tube foot (Zool.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an
echinoderm.
Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate.
See under Flue.
Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes.
Tube spinner (Zool.), any one of various species of spiders
that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria,
Agelena, and allied genera.
Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and
surrounded by flame or hot gases.
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tube foot
(wn) | tube foot
n 1: tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish
and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the
end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
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tube foot
(encz) | tube foot, n: |
tube foot
(wn) | tube foot
n 1: tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish
and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the
end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration |
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