tube-shaped

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And pressurised tanks are tube-shaped, so you can't really use the wings as fuel tanks.

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constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)

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adjective

constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tube-shaped.

adjective

constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)

See also: tubular, cannular, tubelike, vasiform

Example sentences

And pressurised tanks are tube-shaped, so you can't really use the wings as fuel tanks.

This construction was expensive and was replaced by mostly tube-shaped modern airliners.

All of the particles in this long, stringy, tube-shaped arrangement attract each other gravitationally, so the tube starts to tighten.

It is a short, tube-shaped vessel inside of another tube and magnetically elevated.

> Carlos Villalobos, 21, who was selling tube-shaped digital antennas ... says customers often ask if his $20 to $25 products are legal.

I was recently in Barcelona, and the breakfast there was, just as my wife remembered from years ago in Valencia, chocolate croissant with cafe con leche, where "leche" is what we'd call condensed milk, and they give you three tube-shaped packets of sugar to go with it.

From that article: "It's obvious that a hummingbird's long narrow beak is an adaptation for feeding on long narrow flowers, but the corollary is also true: There are species of tube-shaped flowers that are adapted for being pollinated by organisms with skinny, tapered mouthparts.