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 Tu·bu·la·ri·an n. Zool. Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
 Note: ☞ 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.

 Tu·bu·la·ri·an, a. Zool. Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
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