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tubularian, n.

Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida. [1913 Webster]

" 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." [1913 Webster]

tubularian, a.

Of or pertaining to the tubularians. [1913 Webster]

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