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bronchoscope |
a slender tubular instrument with an electric light, used for examining and treating the inside of the bronchi. |
canaliculus |
a small bodily channel or tubular passage, such as a tear duct, or a tiny groove, as in a bone. |
cartridge |
a tubular case for an explosive charge or bullet. [1/4 definitions] |
disk flower |
any of the small tubular tightly packed flowers making up the center of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the aster or daisy. |
diverticulum |
a tubular pouch or sac that branches out from a body canal, organ, or cavity, occurring as a normal or abnormal growth. |
eggplant |
a plant cultivated for its fruit, or the dark purple fruit itself, which is eaten as a vegetable. Some eggplants are ovoid in shape; others are somewhat tubular. |
endoscope |
a long, slender, tubular optical instrument inserted into an inner, hollow body part, such as the lungs or bowel, esp. for examination, diagnosis, or surgical treatment. |
endoscopy |
a medical procedure, carried out for the purpose of examination, in which an endoscope, a long, tubular instrument with an attached camera, is inserted into the body, esp. through the throat or bowel. |
four-o'clock |
any of several common flowering garden plants that bear tubular varicolored blooms that open late in the day. |
foxglove |
any of several plants related to the snapdragon that bear tubular purple, white, or pinkish flowers drooping from upright stalks and have leaves that provide digitalis for medicinal use. |
fullerene |
any of a class of carbon molecules having a roughly spherical or tubular shape. |
honeysuckle |
a shrub or vine with fragrant and often sweet-tasting white, yellow, or pink tubular flowers. |
leg warmers |
a pair of tubular coverings for the legs, usu. knitted from wool or the like, used esp. to keep the legs warm while exercising or dancing. |
lipstick |
a cosmetic for coloring the lips, usu. in stick form in a tubular container. |
maravilla |
a leafy wildflower having fragrant, tubular, evening-blooming flowers ranging in color from white to deep pink and found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to Mexico. |
nanotube |
a nanoscale tubular molecule, esp. of carbon. |
narcissus |
any of several cultivated plants, related to the amaryllis, that grow from a bulb, have long slender leaves, and bear one or more tubular white or yellow flowers. [1/3 definitions] |
neon |
an advertising sign or the like formed from tubular electrical discharge lamps filled with neon or other glowing gases. [2/5 definitions] |
ovipositor |
a tubular organ in many female insects, usu. at the end of the abdomen, for depositing eggs. [1/2 definitions] |
periscope |
a tubular optical instrument fitted with mirrors and prisms so as to allow one to see what is not in the direct line of sight or what is obstructed from sight. |
peristalsis |
a process of muscular contractions and relaxations along a tubular muscular system, such as that which forces food through the digestive system. |
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