annulary

English

Etymology

See Latin annularis. See annular.

Adjective

annulary (comparative more annulary, superlative most annulary)

  1. (archaic) Having the form of a ring; annular.
    • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
      because continual Respiration is necessary for the Support of our Lives, it is made with annulary Cartilages, to keep it constantly open

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “annulary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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