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Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.

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  1. n. Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
  3. 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. Of or pertaining to the tubularians.