annulate

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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

In eggs with yolk, whether vertebrate or annulate, there is always a separation into an animal and a plastic layer.

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

This is a beautiful species, easily known by its discoidal or almost annulate sporangia mounted upon short dark black stipes.

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)

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

The gills are broad and free from the stem, sometimes anastomosing near it, white; stem white, hollow, tapering towards the cap, annulate.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas