ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. ‘That weareth rings, ringed.’ Blount, Glossogr.
2. Furnished with rings; marked with ring-like lines, ridges or grooves.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 122. Crustaceous … having generally eight legs, besides … two or more annulated horns or feelers.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Gazella, The Gazella Indica … with very long horns, which are annulated only in that part near the head.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 202. His tail annulated with alternate rings of black and brown.
1854. Woodward, Man. Mollusca, II. 242. Its cell, the interior of which is often annulated with furrows.
b. Her. Having a ring or annulet. Annulated Cross, one having its extremities ending in annulets.
3. Composed of rings; consisting of a series of ring-like segments united so as to form a tube.
1752. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 3 (Jod.). The Enchelis, with an annulated body, small at each end.
1860. Hartwig, Sea & Wond., xii. 216. The class of the Annelides, or annulated worms … peoples the seas with by far the greater number of its genera and species.
1860. Samuelson, Honey Bee, ii. 11. When fully developed, it [an insect] invariably possesses six annulated legs.
b. Annulated Column in Arch.: ‘Slender shafts clustered together or joined by bands of stone, sometimes of metal, to a central pier or to a jamb.’ Gwilt, 1842.
