annulate
Americanadjective
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formed of ringlike segments, as an annelid worm.
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having rings or ringlike bands.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of annulate
1820–30; < Latin annulātus, variant of ānulātus ringed, equivalent to ānul ( us ) ring + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Ringed, surrounded as with a ring, annulose, annulate: wearing a wedding-ring.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
This species is recognizable at once by its regular, uniform, depressed, annulate or pitted sporangia, scattered evenly over the habitat of rotten leaves or wood.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
The gills are broad and free from the stem, sometimes anastomosing near it, white; stem white, hollow, tapering towards the cap, annulate.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
In eggs with yolk, whether vertebrate or annulate, there is always a separation into an animal and a plastic layer.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
P. convex, umb. squamulosely punctate from the umbo, milk-white with densely crowded yellow striae; g. very broad, crowded; s. stuffed, thin, obsoletely annulate below middle. transilvanica, Schulz.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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