a. [ad. L. annulāt-us, f. annul-us: see -ATE.]
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.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 313. The thecæ of various annulate ferns.
1880. 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 3. See prec. word.
1852. Dana, Crustac., II. 801. Body narrow, fourteen-jointed, annulate.
1859. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., V. 117/1. The class of Annulate Worms.
