Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with rings; annulate. Specifically In zoology, having or consisting of a ring or rings; composed of a series of ringed segments, as a worm; annelid; annuloid.
- In architecture, furnished with a projecting annular band or bands.
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- adjective Having
rings
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- adjective shaped like a ring
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Examples
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This measure was also immediately annulated and from now on the house will only be locked at 19.00 and the buckets will be provided with covers.
Work Camp 59 GW 2010
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Being arch criminals, the insurance executives could act as a super-annulated Peace Corps with a twist.
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From the sea it looks one dense mass of greenery, in which the bright foliage of the candle-nut relieves the glossy dark green of the breadfruit — a maze of preposterous bananas, out of which rise slender annulated trunks of palms giving their infinite grace to the grove.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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It is distinguished from the rest of its family by the beauty and singular shape of its horns, which are annulated or ringed, and spirally convoluted or curved together, making two or more turns, according to the age of the animal.
Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Anonymous
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And what appeared to us worthy of remark was, that whereas, when a snake was decollated, it was only the tail that continued to wriggle -- when a _worm_ was divided, _all_ the segments writhed in the same way, and manifested an equal irritability; showing the difference between creatures of annulated structure, according as they have or have not a _brain_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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Besides this brown or gray annulated ipecacuan, there are spurious kinds, such as the striated or black Peruvian, the produce of
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The roots, which are the officinal part, are contorted, knotty and annulated, and about the thickness of a goose quill.
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The median portion is constricted, and is called the vermis, from its annulated appearance which it owes to the transverse ridges and furrows upon it; the lateral expanded portions are named the hemispheres.
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His face was yellow, parchment-like, annulated with wrinkles, withered with age; his long beard floated like a white cloud on the jewelled stars that constellated the robe of netted gold across his breast.
Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905
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Then I saw that all the bodies were united at the tails -- grew together upon one thick flat annulated stalk ... a plant!
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
knitandpurl commented on the word annulated
"I shall never forget, in a quaint Norman town not far from Balbec, two charming eighteenth-century houses, dear to me and venerable for many reasons, between which, when one looks up at it from the fine garden which descends in terraces to the river, the gothic spire of a church (itself hidden by the houses) soars into the sky with the effect of crowning and completing their façades, but in a style so different, so precious, so annulated, so pink, so polished, that one sees at once that it no more belongs to them than would the purple, crinkled spire of some sea-shell spun out into a turret and gay with glossy colour to a pair of handsome, smooth pebbles between which it had been washed up on the beach."
-- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, pp 70-71 of the Vintage International paperback edition
December 26, 2007