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tubulous

tubulous adjective: shaped like a tube; tubular.

Adjective

tubulous (comparative more tubulous, superlative most tubulous)

  1. Shaped like a tube; tubular.
    1. Having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border.
      • 'a tubulose flower
  2. Constructed of, or containing tubular parts.
    1. Composed wholly of tubular florets.
      • a tubulous compound flower

tubulous meaning in Tamil

tubulous in Tamil

நுண்குழாய்

Forms of tubulous

comparativemore tubulous
superlativemost tubulous
alternative formtubulose

Origin of tubulous

From tubule + -ous. Compare French tubuleux.

Words formed from tubulous

Questions about tubulous

What does tubulous mean?
Tubulous means shaped like a tube; tubular.
What is tubulous in Tamil?
Tubulous in Tamil is நுண்குழாய். See Tubulous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tubulous?
Tubulous is an adjective.

Words near tubulous in the dictionary

  1. tubulosines
  2. tubulosomatic
  3. tubulostromal
  4. tubulotoxic
  5. tubulotoxicity
  6. tubulous
  7. tubulously
  8. tubulovesicle
  9. tubulovesicles
  10. tubulovesicular
  11. tubulovillous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tubulous (page history and authors); tubulous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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