| Back | annulate \AN-yuh-lit, -leyt\ |
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| 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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