tubular

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, or pipe. See Tube.

Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.

Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. — Tubular breathing Medicine, a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea. — Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits. — Tubular girder, a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54