tubular

adjective

Relating to or shaped like a tube.

adjective

Consisting of tubes or a tube.

Having the form of a tube or pipe, without reference to size; tubuliform; tubiform; tubar; fistulous.

In botany, tube-like; tube-shaped; having a tube; tubulous: as, a tubular corolla or calyx.

As applied to respiratory sounds, noting a sound like that produced by a current of air through a tube.

adjective

Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular

adjective

See under Boiler.

adjective

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.

adjective

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.

adjective

a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.