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English Dictionary: tubal by the DICT Development Group
4 results for tubal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tubal
adj
  1. of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube; "tubal ligation"; "tubal pregnancy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tubal \Tub"al\, a.
      Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to
      one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Tubal
      (1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2).
     
         (2.) A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It
      is mentioned by Isaiah (66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel
      (27:13), along with Meshech, among the traders with Tyre, also
      among the confederates of Gog (Ezek. 38:2, 3; 39:1), and with
      Meshech among the nations which were to be destroyed (32:26).
      This nation was probably the Tiberini of the Greek historian
      Herodotus, a people of the Asiatic highland west of the Upper
      Euphrates, the southern range of the Caucasus, on the east of
      the Black Sea.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Tubal, the earth; the world; confusion
  
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