ləυpiən tju b/ nounone of two tubes in a woman, which connectthe ovaries to the uterus

A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash, A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state, Any plant, adjective_ a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow, a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa). It is used for various purposes, as for stuffing cushions, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers, papyrine

Plural form of tube, Internet slang The Internet, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tube

(Zoöl.) the system of tubes and canals in sponges by means of which food and water are absorbed. See Illust. of Spongiæ, Serving to contain, deliver, or regulate a supply of anything, adverb_ Supplely_ in a supple manner, with suppleness, transitive verb_ To have as a necessary or desirable feature, To make up for (a deficiency, for example); compensate for, To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of, verb_ intransitive To act as a substitute, circulate or distribute or equip with, give something useful or necessary to, noun_ an amount of something available for use, uncountable The act of supplying, An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plura