annulate, a.
(ˈænjʊleɪt)
[ad. L. annulāt-us, f. annul-us: see -ate.]
1. Furnished or marked with a ring or rings; esp. in Bot. Having an annulus or ring round the sporangium, as certain ferns and mosses.
| 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 313 The thecæ of various annulate ferns. 1880 Gray Bot. Text-bk. 396 Annulate, marked with rings. |
2. Consisting or formed of rings; composed of a series of ring-like segments united so as to form a tube. = annulated 3. See prec. word.
| 1852 Dana Crustac. ii. 801 Body narrow, fourteen-jointed, annulate. 1859 Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. V. 117/1 The class of Annulate Worms. |