annuloida

pl. [Lat. annulus or anulus =a ring; and εἶδος ( eidos ) = form, appearance.] In Profe or Huxley's cla ification, one of the eight primary groups into which he divides the Animal Kingdom. He places it between the Annulosa and the Infusoria. He includes under it (1) the Trematoda, or Flukes; (2) the Tœniada, or Tape-worms and Bladder-worms; (3) the Turbellaria; (4) the Acanthocephala (5) the Nema to idea, or Thread-worms; and (6) the Rotifer a, or Wheel Animalcules. But he thinks it not improbable Church Hist. A religious order of women founded by Queen Jane of France, wife of Lewis XII., and confirmed by the Pope in 1501 and 1517. It was called also the order of the ten virtues or delights of the Virgin Mary, and was designed to honour these specially by reciting the rosary. ( Hook .)