annulate

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This species is recognizable at once by its regular, uniform, depressed, annulate or pitted sporangia, scattered evenly over the habitat of rotten leaves or wood.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

It is highly contractile and when contracted sometimes assumes an annulate appearance; but as a rule the external surface is smooth.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

Ringed, surrounded as with a ring, annulose, annulate: wearing a wedding-ring.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Thus vertebrate and annulate embryos agree in certain points at the time of the formation of the primitive streak.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The longitudinal type characterises such genera as Vibrio, Filaria, Gordius, and all the annulate animals.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell