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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or resembling a fistula.
  • adjective Tubular and hollow, as the leaves of a scallion.
  • adjective Made of or containing tubular parts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hollow, like a pipe or reed; tubular; fistuliform.
  • Having the form or nature of a tube or fistula; containing fistulas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the form or nature of a fistula.
  • adjective Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a fistula
  • adjective Resembling a reed; hollow and tubular

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective hollow and tube-shaped like a reed
  • adjective of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula

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