ringedadj.
/rɪŋd/, U.S. /rɪŋd/ 1. Of armour: made of rings. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adjective] > made of or furnished with mail
ringedOE
maileda1382
rustred1818
OE Beowulf (2008) 1245 Heaþosteapa helm, hringed byrne, þrecwudu þrymlic.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 64 (MED) On his armys, rynged nat to wyde, Þer wer woiders frettid in þe maille With cordis rounde.
1796 J. Strutt Compl. View Dress & Habits People of Eng. I. iii. iv. 116 The ringed armour of the ancient Saxons, and the mail armour of the Normans..bore great analogy to each other.
1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour I. 27 The form of the rustred armour seems..to have grown out of the ringed.
1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 157 This surcoat hanging lower than the ringed hauberk.
1876 J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume I. 348 Ringed mail is constantly mentioned by Saxon, Norman and Scandinavian writers.
1920 A. L. Cross Shorter Hist. Eng. iv. 41 (note) The heavy-armed forces..were protected by helmets and by shirts and short breeches of ringed mail.
2006 T. Harper Knights of Cross 45 He wore a crimson cope over his ringed armour, with scenes from the scriptures embroidered into it in gold.
2.
a. Having or provided with a ring or rings; marked with or encircled by a ring or rings; surrounded by a circular band or bands.Recorded earliest in the Old English compound hringedstefna, lit. ‘ringed stem (stem n.2)’, the precise meaning of which is unclear (see R. D. Fulk et al. Klaeber's Beowulf (ed. 4, 2008) 116).
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > annular > having rings
ringedOE
hooped1552
ringleda1593
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective] > surrounded > by a ring or band
ringedOE
OE Beowulf (2008) 32 Þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna, isig ond utfus, æþelinges fær.
1419 in Proc. Suffolk Inst. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. (1853) 1 166 (MED) I beqwethe Jone, my woman..ij sponys of syluer and a lytyl candelestykke and a ryngyd basyn.
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 106v (MED) Eyþer blade of þis tonges is rynged and in either ryng a roop.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. x. 40 Apon a hors of Trace..With bawsand face, ringit the forthir E.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. iii. 372 The Female or Duck hath neither green head, nor ringed Neck, but both particoloured of white, brown, and dark red.
1723 J. Chamberlayne tr. J. Saurin Diss. Events of Old & New Test. (new ed.) I. xxix. 228 He made a separate Flock of all the brown among the Sheep, taking out all the He-Goats that were ringed, streaked and spotted, and all the She-Goats that were speckled.
1790 W. Bligh Narr. Mutiny on Bounty 68 This day we saw a number of water-snakes, that were ringed yellow and black.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xi. 232 One man was ringed and dotted with white like a Fuegian.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 364 As it now appears in Captain Minié's annular ringed bullet.
1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours vi. 148 (note) The sensations with which..I saw the ringed planet for the first time.
1885 Cent. Mag. 31 31 He cautiously felt the weight of the ringed and polished rod.
1887 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights III. d. 11 Under the ringed slab he also finds a door whose lock he breaks with his pickaxe.
1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 22 Raccoon, with its black mask and ringed tail, is a night prowler of mangroves and pinelands.
2007 D. M. Harland Cassini at Saturn ii. 59 (caption) A NASA artist's depiction of Pioneer 11, the first spacecraft to encounter the ringed planet.
b. Botany. Of a part of a plant (esp. the stem of a palm): encircled with raised or depressed bands of tissue.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape
fingered1597
fistular1640
umbilicated1693
pectinal1705
fornicated1750
deltoid1753
linguiform1753
panduriform1753
lingulated1754
campaniform1758
augmented1760
ringed1760
securiform1760
urceolate1760
utricular1760
lingulate1763
vermicular1766
pandurated1771
navicular1793
semicolumnar1793
ungulate1802
capitellate1808
meniscoid1821
virgate1821
mitriform1824
pulvinate1824
caudated1829
vulviform1829
caudate1830
circinate1830
intruded1830
trochlear1830
scalariform1836
hippocrepiform1847
neottious1850
pulviniform1851
foxglove-shaped1856
clathroid1857
molariform1857
velate1857
strombuliform1859
calceiform1860
coralline1860
forniciform1860
urceolar1860
calceolate1861
frustulose1866
pandurate1866
intruse1870
scalar1880
meniscoidal1881
fingerposted1885
applanate1887
trochleariform1895
naviculoid1898
halonate1911
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 311/2 Palm with ringed Stems, called Todda Panna, Cycas.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 394 Ringed.., surrounded by elevated or depressed bands; as the roots of some plants, the cupulæ of several oaks, &c.
1856 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms 159 Ringed, when a cylindrical part is surrounded by lines, bands, elevations, &c., which approximate to circles.
1879 Bot. Gaz. 4 156 After many years, the leaf-stalks fall off and leave exposed the brown, cylindrical, somewhat ringed trunks.
1945 Sci. Monthly Jan. 6/2 This smooth, light-colored, strongly ringed trunk alone serves to distinguish the Cecropia from nearly all its neighbors.
2008 M. B. Gargiullo Field Guide Plants Costa Rica 38 Recognized by their large, rounded, palmately divided leaves and ringed trunks.
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a. Of a person: wearing a ring or rings; spec. married. Also: (of an animal) fitted with a ring to restrain it or control its behaviour. Cf. beringed adj. at be- prefix 7, earringed adj., nose-ringed adj. at nose-ring n. Derivatives. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [adjective] > wearing ring(s)
ringedc1400
sigilled1864
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [adjective] > married (in specific manner)
ringed1872
farreate1880
parsoned1886
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iii. 12 Ich lokid..And sauh a womman..wonderlich riche cloþed..On alle hure fyue fyngres rycheliche yrynged [A. were frettid wiþ rynges].
?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye f. xi A great sort more of your anoynted auncetours, pontificall prelates, mytred mommers, mad mastrye workers, ringed ruffelers, rocheted rutters.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 359 Many of them [sc. Patryarches, Archbyshoppes, Byshopps, and Abbottes] also Rynged and Chayned.
1620 J. Taylor Trav. to Prague sig. D2 She's yellow starch'd, she's ruff'd, and cuff'd, and muff'd, She's ring'd, she's braceleted, she's richly tuff'd.
1638 J. Ford Fancies ii. 26 'Twould wind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens with her.
1681 R. Baxter Treat. Episcopacy xix. sig. Aa1v As if the Devil himself, should mitred and ringed sit in the chair.
1718 G. Jacob Compl. Sportsman 100 Hogs in the Forest not ring'd.
1750 New Tea-table Misc. 167 [Why is a married woman like a bear in the street?] Because she's ring'd.
1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxvii. 243 I shall at all events appear in the Tuileries, to-morrow, chained and ringed.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. v. 115 Your ringed and scented men of the people.
1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Brides & Bridals I. vi. 93 Our mediæval matrons were always ringed on the left hand.
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary i. i. 4 I was born of a true man and a ring'd wife.
1924 R. Jeffers Tamar & Other Poems 97 Deep in the south your Fauna finds her home, A gold-ringed wife and childless.
1989 E. Conlon Stars in Daytime xi. 126 Funny how men seldom whistled after another man's ringed woman.
b. Of a part of the body, esp. a finger: adorned with a ring or rings. Cf. beringed adj. at be- prefix 7.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [adjective] > of fingers: having ring(s)
ringed1581
1581 E. Hutchins Davids Sling against Great Goliah 236 Their wrought clothes, their ringed fingers, and their costlie fare in this worlde, which Lazarus wanteth, they are al vanitie.
1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 251 Their wiues eares and noses are ringed very full of rings of copper and siluer.
1605 A. Warren Poverties Patience in Poore Mans Passions sig. I2v Then ringed Fingers glorifide with gold..Shall perrish, rot, consume, and come to dust.
1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 228 The Fingers, which were ringed with Diamonds.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 123 With..forefinger, brown and ringed.
1874 T. De W. Talmage Around Tea-table xxxvi. 223 You see here and there groups of red men, with long hair, and cheeks dashed with war-paint, ringed ears, and a superfluity of dirt that buries your last romantic notion about the ‘noble red man of the forest’.
1911 K. Tynan Princess Katharine x. 121 Lady Lynch laid one delicate ringed finger on the girl's cheek.
1994 P. Powell Small Gathering of Bones 8 It was always a joy to..watch Mrs Morgan..proceed to run ringed fingers deftly over the keyboard.
2002 M. Schwartz Thoughts from Queen-sized Bed ii. 102 A girl with big cleavage and a ringed nose arched her back before him.
c. Chiefly Ornithology. Of a bird (or bat): bearing a ring (ring n.1 3f) on the leg (or wing). Also called (esp. in North American use) banded.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [adjective] > ringing or ringed
ringed1899
banded1914
banding1914
1899 Ibis 5 25 The chances must ever be 50 to 1 against a ringed wild bird turning up to be identified after a lapse of years.
1907 Country-side 2 Feb. 156/2 Every ringed bird, caught, killed, or picked up dead, could be identified.
1948 Brit. Birds 41 233 Recoveries of ringed Mallard are in the vast majority of cases obtained from birds shot.
1989 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 26 110 The first [assumption] is that ringed bats are recaptured randomly and all individuals have the same chance of recapture.
2006 Bird Watching Aug. 113/3 Later that day, a ringed Subalpine Warbler appeared on the Farne Islands, Northumberland.
4.
a. Having, or put into, the form of a ring.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > annular
annular?a1560
ringed1593
annulary1646
ring-shaped1657
ringy1683
corolliform1854
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 88v Hence blasphemous Witches..when they..raise vp the deuill, drawe a ringed circle all-about hym.
1600 R. Kittowe Loues Load-starre sig. Cv Aboron and his faire Aurelia..were dauncing in ringed rounds.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia lii. 209 It [sc. this Insect] had two long horns before, which were streight, and tapering towards the top, curiously ring'd or knobb'd, and brisled much like the Marsh Weed.
1726 C. Ellison Most Pleasant Descr. Benwel Village ii. 559 So have I seen Two wrestling Men Engag'd on rising Hill; Where in Ring'd Lifts Th'Antagonists Have shew'd much artful Skill.
1855 B. Thorpe tr. Beowulf 4041 Oft she a ringed wreath to the warrior gave.
1893 G. Allen Scallywag I. 105 The baronet blew the smoke slowly through his ringed lips.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 513 Discoid or ringed scaly patches.
1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 9/2 Of all the hard-tack breads..I have found..the small ringed bread of Siberia the most substantial.
1967 A. M. Blombery Guide Native Austral. Plants ii. 208 Alexandra Palm. A tall palm..with a trunk showing distinct ringed ridges.
2002 S. Goss Brit. Tea & Coffee Cups 27 A new shape called the Adelaide, with a distinctive type of ringed handle, was introduced in about 1830.
b. Zoology. Of an invertebrate: segmented. Later spec.: (of a worm) annelid. Now rare.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > composed of rings
annulated1668
ringed1836
1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. 33 It frequently appears in the shape of a long, more or less cylindrical, ringed worm.
1840 W. Swainson & W. E. Shuckard Hist. Insects 1 The body is always divided into rings or transverse joints; from which circumstance naturalists have agreed to call them annulose, or ringed animals.
1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man iii. 45 A lower type of annulose or ringed animal than that of the Trilobites, is that of the worms.
1909 J. B. Smith Our Insect Friends & Enemies i. 10 [An insect] is a ringed animal, with six jointed legs, breathing by means of air tubes.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. viii. 143 This plan of nervous system is found not only in the ringed worms.
2006 C. Nüsslein-Volhard Coming Life ix. 119 The five phyla that include the highest number of animal species are the nematodes or round worms, the annelids or ringed worms, [etc.].
5. Of a tree or branch: deprived of a ring of bark. Cf. ringbark v. 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adjective] > having ring of bark removed
girdleda1817
ringed1820
1820 Hort. Soc. Trans. 4 124 If the ring be wide, the ringed branches..speedily become sickly.
1889 Canad. Rec. Sci. 3 227 I believe ‘ringed’ trees usually survive the operation for some months.
1911 F. N. Meyer Agric. Explor. Orchards China 38 The fruit of the ringed trees..is not so sweet by far as that coming from the unringed trees.
1939 B. S. Meyer & D. B. Anderson Plant Physiol. xxviii. 489 Carbohydrates synthesized by the leaves on the ringed branch mostly remain in that branch or are translocated to the developing fruits.
2006 R. P. Miller et al. in B. M. Kumar & P. K. R. Nair Trop. Homegardens iv. 48 Ringed trees would slowly drop a layer of leaves over the field.
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In the names of animals. Cf. ring n.1 Compounds 2b.ΚΠ
1831 Wilson's Amer. Ornith. IV. 348 Ringed Bernacles, Berniclæ torquatæ.
ringed boa n. the rainbow boa, Epicrates cenchria.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Boidae (boas) > types of epicrates > epicrates cenchris (rainbow boa)
ringed boa1802
rainbow boa1910
1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 344 Ringed boa (Boa Cenchris)... This animal is a native of South America.
1908 Washington Post 23 Feb. 4/4 The ringed boa, or aboma, was at one time worshiped as a god by the ancient Mexicans.
1957 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World vi. 43 The most attractive member of the genus is a mainland species... This is the Rainbow boa, or Ringed Boa, E. cenchris.
2001 H. E. A. Boos Snakes Trinidad & Tobago 64 Local names: Rainbow boa, ringed boa, jack, jack snake, thick-necked tree boa, [etc.].
ringed carpet n. a Eurasian geometrid moth, Cleora cinctaria, which is pale grey with dark bands on the forewings, and inhabits heathland with scattered trees.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > carpet > types of
panther1775
garden carpet1809
chalk carpet1832
wall-carpet1832
ringed carpet1839
red carpet1890
1839 W. Wood Index Entomologicus 84 (table) Cinctaria... Ringed Carpet... Cleora.
1896 J. W. Tutt Brit. Moths xi. 300 The Ringed Carpet..is abundant at Lyndhurst in May and early June, on the dwarf firs among the heather.
1948 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths II. 197 The Ringed Carpet... The New Forest in Hampshire is said to be the district par excellence for this species.
2008 M. Alexander Managem. Planning Nat. Conservation iii. 325 Several noteworthy moths occur, including three nationally scarce species..: ringed carpet Cleora cinctaria, large red-belted clearwing Synanthedon culiciformis and ashworth's [sic] rustic Xestia ashworthii.
ringed china-mark n. a small Eurasian moth, Parapoynx stratiotata (family Crambidae or Pyralidae), which has a small dark ring in the centre of the pale forewing, and larvae that feed underwater on aquatic plants.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Pyralidae > china mark > hydrocampa stratiotala (ringed china-mark)
ringed china-mark1819
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Pyralidae > sable > botys stratiotalis (ringed china-mark)
ringed china-mark1819
1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 425 (table) Botys stratiotalis. The ringed China-mark.
1907 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 173 Hydrocampa stratiotata, L. ‘The Ringed China Mark’. Common to England and Ireland, not Scotland.
1979 J. D. Bradley & D. S. Fletcher Recorder's Log Bk. Brit. Butterflies & Moths 57 Parapoynx..stratiotata Linn. Ringed China-mark.
ringed dove n. †(a) = ring-dove n. 1 (obsolete); (b) = ring-dove n. 2.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba palumbus (wood-pigeon)
cushata700
culverc825
wood-culvera1100
wood-dovec1386
queest?1440
ringed dove?1533
ring-dove1538
wood-quest1543
wood pigeon1668
ring pigeon1776
woodie1947
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Civ The rynged doue, le ramier.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 178 Here thrushes chant their madrigals, Here breathes the ringed dove.
1878 H. G. Adams Wonders & Beauties Year 147 The Ringed Dove, or Cushat..is generally dispersed over the wooded and cultivated parts of England and Ireland.
1916 C. M. Enriquez Burmese Enchantment xii. 161 Talking of bird cries reminds me that in the Punjab the ringed-dove..says Yusuf-Ku! Yusuf-Ku! (Joseph is in the well).
2002 W. M. F. Jashemski & F. G. Meyer Nat. Hist. Pompeii xvi. 394/2 Streptopelia risoria... The ringed dove, presently known as a common aviary species, is thought to be derived from a North African species.
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1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 16 Spermophilus annulatus,..Ringed Ground Squirrel.—Plains of Colima, Mexico.
ringed guillemot n. now rare the ‘bridled’ guillemot, which is a variety of the common guillemot or murre ( Uria aalge) with a white bridle-shaped line around the eye.
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1839 Lit. Gaz. 23 Mar. 185/1 Among the specimens exhibited were the ringed guillemot.
1914 Nature 1 Oct. 121/1 The white eyebrow-stripe in the so-called ringed guillemot—now known to be a special phase of the ordinary Uria troile—represents an incipient albinism.
1957 Encycl. Brit. X. 970/2 The so-called bridled or ringed guillemot is a variety of U. aalge with a white mark resembling a bridle round its eye.
ringed kingfisher n. a large blue-grey kingfisher, Megaceryle torquata, with a white collar and red-brown underparts, found from Texas to Chile.
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1889 P. L. Sclater & W. H. Hudson Argentine Ornithol. II. 26 Ceryle Torquata (Linn.) Ringed Kingfisher.
1953 E. R. Blake Birds Mexico 274 Ringed Kingfisher... Above blue, the hind-neck with a more or less conspicuous white collar.
2005 T. Brush Nesting Birds Trop. Frontier 69 I made a journal note of some apparent nesting activity by Black Vultures in an old Ringed Kingfisher burrow along the Rio Grande.
ringed lemming n. now rare a collared lemming (genus Dicrostonyx); spec. the Arctic lemming, D. torquatus, of Siberia; cf. ringed rat n.
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1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 217 L. Torquatus (Ringed Lemming.) Ferruginous, with a black dorsal line, and a white collar, imperfect underneath.
1866 Wilts. Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 9 227 There is nothing strange or unaccountable in the presence of the..Ringed Lemming.
1920 M. B. Gardner Journey to Earth's Interior (rev. ed.) vii. 152 The ringed lemming, a member of the rat family, is found in great numbers in the extreme north of Grinnell Land.
ringed penguin n. (a) the chinstrap or bearded penguin, Pygoscelis antarcticus, which has a thin black line that passes under the chin and connects with the black cap on each side of the head; (b) (in plural) a collective name for penguins of the genus Spheniscus, which have a band of white feathers on the head and an arc of black feathers on the breast and flanks.
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the world > animals > birds > order Sphenisciformes or penguin > [noun] > member of genus Pygoscelis (gentoo)
gentoo1820
Johnny1832
ringed penguin1894
Adélie penguin1901
Adélie1907
the world > animals > birds > order Sphenisciformes or penguin > [noun] > member of genus Spheniscus (jackass)
jackass penguin1825
sphenisque1826
spheniscan1840
Galapagos penguin1913
African penguin1931
ringed penguin1996
1894 Proc. Royal Physical Soc. Edinb. 1892–4 12 334 Of the Pygoscelis Antarctica (Forst.), or Ringed Penguin, I saw only a single specimen.
1919 E. Shackleton South i. 6 During the day we had seen adelie and ringed penguins.
1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 611/1 The Chinstrap (or Ringed) Penguin..is most abundant in the Antarctic Peninsula.
1996 J. Chester Nature of Penguins i. 7 The Spheniscus are known as the ringed penguins because of the ring-shaped bands of black or white feathers on their chests and heads.
ringed perch n. North American the yellow perch, Perca flavescens; cf. ring perch n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > perca fluvescens (ring perch)
yellow perch1791
ring perch1873
ringed perch1877
1877 31st Ann. Rep. Ohio State Board Agric. 1876 (App.) 168 The complete extinction of this species, the yellow or ringed perch, would be no loss so far as well-flavored food is concerned.
1941 Washington Post 31 Oct. 31/3 Now is the time to fish with live minnows for yellow perch, or ringed perch, as many name him locally.
2000 D. Whitlock L. L. Bean Fly Fishing for Bass Handbk. 159 Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) also called ringed perch, is a widely distributed panfish.
ringed pheasant n. = ring-necked pheasant n. at ring-necked adj. Compounds.
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1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Phasianus Ringed pheasant. Collar white.
1860 W. Jardine Gallinaceous Birds 193 The ringed pheasant chiefly inhabits the forests of China.
1922 G. M. Thomson Naturalisation Animals & Plants N. Z. iv. 111 Chinese Pheasant; Ringed Pheasant (P. torquatus).
2002 R. Sterckx Animal & Daemon Early China i. 29 These include wild rabbits..and ringed pheasants.
ringed plover n. any of several small, short-necked plovers of the genus Charadrius, having a white collar and a black band across the breast; esp.: (a) C. hiaticula of Eurasia and Canada, and (in full little ringed plover) C. dubius, of Eurasia and Australasia; (b) North American, the semipalmated plover, C. semipalmatus; cf. ring plover n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover)
sea-lark1602
ringlestonesa1682
stone-runner1681
sand laverock1694
sandy laverock1710
ring-necked plover1750
towillee1758
sand lark1771
ringed plover1776
ring dotterel1797
ring plover1797
dulwilly1802
ring-neck1837
ringed sand plover1842
stonehatch1852
miller1885
sand-runner1894
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) II. ii. 479 Ringed [Plover]... The upper part of the neck is incircled with a white collar.
1812 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. V. 30 The Ringed Plover is very abundant on the low sandy shores of our whole sea-coast, during summer.
1882 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 76/1 The group commonly known as Ringed Plovers or Ring Doterels.
1913 H. K. Swann Dict. Names Brit. Birds 205 Sand Runner: The Dunlin. Also the Ringed Plover and the Sanderling on the Humber.
1955 G. H. Lowery Louisiana Birds 236 Piping Plover... This is the first of our five so-called ‘ringed plovers’—plovers that have one or two bands that either partially or completely encircle the birds' neck and chest.
2004 Wildlife News May 16/3 Ringed plovers scurry over the surface to draw you away from their eggs.
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1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 457 Ringed [Rat]. Mus Torquatus... R[at] with a blunt nose: ears hid in its fur: legs strong and short: soles covered with hair.
ringed seal n. a small northern seal, Pusa hispida, which has a dark back marked with pale rings and breeds chiefly on the Arctic ice; cf. ring seal n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca hispida (ringed seal)
ringed seal1850
floe-rat1880
marble seal1896
1850 Catal. Mammalia Brit. Mus. ii. 23 (heading) Callocephalus hispidus. Ringed seal.
1879 Nature 13 Nov. 40/1 The Polar bear and the ringed seal (Phoca fœtida).
1937 Beaver Mar. 9/2 After the business of getting this one out, another ringed seal about one hundred pounds, we felt it was time for a cup of hot tea.
2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing ii. 117 We see our first ringed seal this afternoon, sunning outside its aglu in 50-degree heat.
ringed sand plover n. now rare = ringed plover n. (a).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover)
sea-lark1602
ringlestonesa1682
stone-runner1681
sand laverock1694
sandy laverock1710
ring-necked plover1750
towillee1758
sand lark1771
ringed plover1776
ring dotterel1797
ring plover1797
dulwilly1802
ring-neck1837
ringed sand plover1842
stonehatch1852
miller1885
sand-runner1894
1842 W. MacGillivray Man. Brit. Ornithol. II. 52 Ringed Sand~plover.
1906 Country-side 2 June 53 (caption) Eggs of Ringed Sand Plover.
ringed snake n. any of various snakes with a band or bands of contrasting colour around the body; esp.: (a) the European grass snake, Natrix natrix (family Colubridae); (b) Australian the bandy-bandy, Vermicella annulata (family Elapidae); cf. ring snake n. at ring n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Natrix > natrix helvetica (ringed snake)
water snake1527
water serpent1530
ringed water snake1668
grass snake1720
ringed snake1776
ring snake1901
1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) III. iii. 33 Ringed [Snake] ... The snake is the largest of the English serpents.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 620/2 The fourth ventricle..in the ringed snake and lizard is small, but deep.
1865 G. F. Angas Austral. 106 The ringed snake, a small species beautifully banded with black and white, is also poisonous.
1956 T. Y. Harris Naturecraft in Austral. 51 The Bandy Bandy or Ringed Snake..is also venomous but not dangerous.
2003 Copeia No. 2. 417/2 Garth mentored..Roger Thorpe, (Aberdeen University..; intraspecific variation of the ringed snake Natrix natrix).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus torquatus (ring-ouzel)
ouzela1525
ring ouzel1673
heath-throstle1676
mountain ouzel1678
rock ouzel1678
amsela1705
tor ouzel1770
ring thrush1785
blackbird1802
Michaelmas blackbird1802
heath-thrush1804
ring blackbird1817
ringed thrush1817
moor blackbird1837
1817 T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 50 Ringed Thrush.
1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds II. 100 The Ringed Thrush is very similar to the Blackbird.
1888 Monthly Chron. North-Country Lore & Legend Nov. 493/2 It is known as the rock ouzel, mountain blackbird, moor blackbird, mountain ouzel, white-breasted blackbird, ringed thrush and ringed blackbird.
ringed turtle-dove n. any of several doves of the genus Streptopelia; (now esp.) (U.S.) the domesticated ring-neck or Barbary dove, ‘ S. risoria’.
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1835 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 254 Only four species [of pigeons and doves] occur in Britain, three of which are resident, the fourth, the Ringed Turtle-Dove, migratory.
1875 Zoologist 10 4616 Ringed Turtle Dove (Turtur capicola).—The ringed turtle dove is closely related to the bird that we have kept in cages in England.
1916 R. Ridgway Birds North & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 50) VII. 386 Streptopelia Risoria... Ringed Turtle Dove. Adult male.—Pileum and nape vinaceous-buff to tilleul-buff; [etc.].
1919 C. O. Whitman Inheritance, Fertility, & Dominance of Sex & Color in Hybrids of Wild Species of Pigeons II. 194 Stejneger uses ‘ring-dove’ for the domestic bird; ‘ringed turtle-dove’ for the wild species of China and Japan.
2005 D. S. Maehr & H. W. Kale Florida's Birds (ed. 2) 115 The Ringed Turtle-Dove has been bred in captivity for hundreds of years.
ringed water snake n. rare = ringed snake n. (a).
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Natrix > natrix helvetica (ringed snake)
water snake1527
water serpent1530
ringed water snake1668
grass snake1720
ringed snake1776
ring snake1901
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 33 The Ringd Water Snake.
1987 J. J. Scanlan in tr. St. Albertus Man & Beasts xxv. ii. 394 (note) ‘Andris’ is a transliteration of Gr. ὕδος: a water-snake, possibly the ringed water-snake, Coluber natrix.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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