annulateadj.
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.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [adjective] > of or having a spore case > surrounded by ring
annulate1830
helicogyrate1857
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 313 The thecæ of various annulate ferns.
1880 A. 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 adj. 3. See Annulata n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > [adjective] > of the annulose animals
annulated1748
annulose1835
annulate1852
1852 J. D. Dana Crustacea ii. 801 Body narrow, fourteen-jointed, annulate.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 117/1 The class of Annulate Worms.
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