tubularian

CIDE DICTIONARY

tubularian, n. 

 Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.  [1913 Webster]
" 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."  [1913 Webster]

tubularian, a. 

 Of or pertaining to the tubularians.  [1913 Webster]