sb. pl. Zool. [mod. L. adj. pl. neut. (sc. animālia): see ANNULOSE.] The ANNULOSE animals, one of Prof. Huxley’s primary groups, containing such as crustaceans, insects, and worms, which have a more or less firm external skeleton, composed of a series of rings. They comprehend the higher Articulata of earlier zoologists.
1855. H. Spencer, Psych., I. I. i. 3. The Sub-kingdom Annulosa shows us an immense difference between the slow crawling of worms and quick flight of insects.
