annular
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin ānulāris "ring-shaped"; (possibly through French annulaire), from ānulus ring.
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[edit] Adjective
annular (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers; in the shape of an annulus.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 6
- The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings […] ; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts […]
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 6
- Banded or marked with circles.
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[edit] Translations
having the form of a ring
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[edit] References
- annular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
