Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with rings; composed of rings: as, annulose animals.

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

  • adjective Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.

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  • adjective Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ring-like segments; ringed.
  • adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.

Etymologies

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Latin annulus ring.

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Examples

  • In the great assemblage of annulose animals, the two highest classes, the insects and spider tribe, exhibit a wonderful persistency of type.

    Essays 2007

  • For if {171} the annulose animals have been formed by aggregation, we ought to find this process much less perfect in the oldest form.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Malacostraca (= higher Crustacea), Insecta (= annulose animals),

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • If I say that respiration is performed by the lungs; that digestion is effected in the stomach; that the eye is the organ of sight; that the jaws of a vertebrated animal never open sideways, but always up and down; while those of an annulose animal always open sideways, and never up and down -- I am enumerating propositions which are as exact as anything in Euclid.

    Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • If I say that respiration is performed by the lungs; that digestion is effected in the stomach; that the eye is the organ of sight; that the jaws of a vertebrated animal never open sideways, but always up and down; while those of an annulose animal always open sideways, and never up and down -- I am enumerating propositions which are as exact as anything in Euclid.

    Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In the great assemblage of annulose animals, the two highest classes, the insects and spider tribe, exhibit

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In the ptilota, or winged insects, the hymenopterous are the rasorial type, and it is not therefore surprising to find amongst them the ants and bees, "the most social, intelligent, and in the latter case, most useful to man, of all the annulose animals."

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

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