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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 an annulus.
  • adjective mycology Describes a mushroom with an annulus on the stipe.

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

[Latin ānulātus, from ānulus, ring; see annulus.]

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Latin annulatus.

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