Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In some systems of zoölogical classification, a term applied to invertebrate animals which exhibit annelism or annulism: approximately synonymous with the Cuvierian Articulata, or the modern Vermes together with Arthropoda, but used with great and varying latitude of signification.
  • A name given by Huxley (1869) to a subkingdom of animals consisting of the Crustacea, Arachnida, Myriapoda, Insecta, Chœtognatha, and Annelida, or crustaceans, spiders, centipeds, true insects, true worms, and some other Vermes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

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Examples

  • For, as the nerves everywhere follow the muscles, and these are attached to the various bones, we see how it happens, that the tracts in which distinct developments of colour appear, should so often be marked out by the chief divisions of the bony structure in vertebrates, and by the segments in the annulosa.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Shuckard, Newman, and Westwood have been the principal scientific men who have attended to species of annulosa.

    Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

  • They are red-blooded and hermaphrodite, and form a link of connexion between the annulosa (white-blooded worms) and a humble class of the vertebrata.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • In the annulosa it is not distinct, although we must also remember that insects do produce enormous ravages and annoyance in many parts of the earth.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • The polypi vaginati, in the crustaceous covering of the living mass, and their more or less articulated structure, represent the annulosa.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • An enumeration of some other examples of the natatorial type, as the cephalopoda (instanced in the cuttle-fish) in the mollusca; the crustacea (crabs, &c.) in the annulosa; the owls

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

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