tubivalve

English

Etymology

From tube and valve.

Noun

tubivalve (plural tubivalves)

(zoology, rare) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, such as a serpula.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tubivalve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)