Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or consisting of rings or ringlike segments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with rings, or circles like rings; having belts. Specifically In botany, provided with an annulus or with annuli: applied to a capsule, stem, or root encircled by elevated rings or bands. See cut under
annulus . - In heraldry, applied to any bearing, such as a cross, whose extremities end in annulets or rings, or which is fretted or interlaced with an annulet. See cut under
angle , 5. Equivalent forms are annulettée, annuletty. - Of or pertaining to the Annulata in either sense of that word.
- In entomology, having rings or encircling bands of color, or having raised rings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Annulata.
- adjective Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Annulata.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having an
annular form or shape. - adjective botany Describes a
fern sporangium that has anannulus . - adjective mycology Describes a mushroom with an
annulus on thestipe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a ring
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In eggs with yolk, whether vertebrate or annulate, there is always a separation into an animal and a plastic layer.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In some animals, _e. g._, sea-urchins, the skeleton is a simple sphere; in others, _e. g._, starfish, secondary rows of spheres radiate out from a central sphere or ring; in annulate animals the skeleton consists of a row of partially fused spheres.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Thus vertebrate and annulate embryos agree in certain points at the time of the formation of the primitive streak.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The longitudinal type characterises such genera as _Vibrio_, _Filaria_, _Gordius_, and all the annulate animals.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Among annulate animals the theory of repetition found ample scope; Oken was able to compare with justice the jaws of crabs and insects with their other limbs, as Savigny did later in a more scientific way.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Cross rings may or may not be present, and the cup is either smooth or annulate.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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