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Annulate Ringlike An Yuh Lit Leyt Adjective Rings Bands Formed

Annulate is an adjective meaning having rings or ringlike bands, or formed of ringlike segments.

Annulate es un adjetivo que significa tener anillos o bandas anulares, o estar formado por segmentos anulares.

Back annulate \AN-yuh-lit, -leyt\
Front
adjective
1. Having rings or ringlike bands.
2. Formed of ringlike segments, as an annelid worm.

[Annulate entered English in the 1800s from the Latin annulus meaning "ring."]

This may be called, for distinctness' sake, the annulate corpuscle. - Thomas Henry Huxley, An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, 2006

A cast-iron stove dragged its annulate pipe along the wall, then folded it into the overhead motley of the flags. - Vladimir Nabokov, "The Fight," 1925

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