Category:Tubularian

Tu`bu*la"ri*an, n. (zool.)

Defn: 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.

Tubularian Tu`bu*la"ri*an, a. (zoöl.)

Defn: of or pertaining to the tubularians.