annulate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin annulatus, from Latin ānulātus.[1]

Adjective

annulate (comparative more annulate, superlative most annulate)

  1. Having an annular form or shape.
  2. (botany) Describes a fern sporangium that has an annulus.
  3. (mycology) Describes a mushroom with an annulus on the stipe.

Derived terms

Noun

annulate (plural annulates)

  1. (zoology) One of the Annulata.

Verb

annulate (third-person singular simple present annulates, present participle annulating, simple past and past participle annulated)

  1. (transitive, chemistry) To cause (something) to undergo an annulation reaction (a reaction which forms a ring of atoms).
    • 1995, Donald B. Borders, Terrence W. Doyle, editors, Enediyne Antibiotics as Antitumor Agents, New York, N.Y. : Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, page 393:
      A conceptually different approach was undertaken by Schreiber and coworkers in which, rather than annulating the enediyne bridge onto a cyclohexane-type precursor, both rings were assembled in a single transformation, specifically an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction (Scheme XII) (30).

References

  1. ^ “annulate, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Adjective

annulāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of annulātus
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