annulose

[ANNULOSA.] 1. Gen.: Ringed. 2. Spec.: Pertaining to animals of the subkingdom Annulosa. "The body is always divided into rings or transverse joints; from which circumstance naturalists have agreed to call them annulose or ringed animals. Swains on & Shuckard: Hist. and Cla if of Insects (1840), p. 1. ăn-nu-lăm ět bắc-ụ lùm, acc us . sing . of two Lat. substantives with copulative et. They are in the accusative because the preposition per is understood. [Lat. (by means of) a ring and a staff or crosier.] [ANNULUS.] A ring and pastoral staff or crosier formerly delivered by kings to bishops on their election. These were designed, it was said, to confer the temporalities annexed to the spiritual office; but Pope Gregory VII. and his succe ors contended that the symbols adopted were not those of secular, but of sacred office. The papal views on the subject ultimately prevailed; and the Emperor Henry V., with the other European sovereigns, agreed to confer investitures not per annulum et baculum , but per sceptrum, by the sceptre, the undoubted symbol of temporal authority. ăn-nu-lus (plur. ăn-nu-li), s. [Lat. = a ring.] I. Bot . (1.) The thickened longitudinal ring which partially surrounds the sporangia of ferns. (Lindley.) (2.) The elastic external ring with which the brim of the sporangium in mo es is furnished. ( Ibid .) (3.) That part of the veil in fungi which, remaining next to the stipes, surrounds it like a loose collar. ( Ibid .) II. Anatomy : 1. Gen.: Anything resembling a ring. "They [the horns of the Nyl-ghau ( Antilope picta )| aro perfectly smooth and without annuli. -Penny Cycl., 11. 75. 2. Technically. Annulus oval is : A thick fleshy ring nearly surrounding the fo a oval is , a depre ion on the middle of the septum in the right auricle of the heart. ( Todd and Bowman: Physiol. Anat ., vol. ii., p. 335.) III. Astron.: The "ring" of light left during a solar eclipse, when the sun's disc is almost covered by the dark body of the moon. [ANNULAR, 2.] an annular eclipse, a phenomenon to which much interest is attached by reason of some curious optical phenomena first observed by Mr. Baily at the moments of the forming and breaking of the annulus , like beads of ads of light alternating with with black thready elongations of the moon's limb, known by the name of 'Baily's beads.'"- Herschel : Astron ., 10th ed. (1869), § 425.