catenulate

from The Century Dictionary.

• In zoology, same as catenate.
• Consisting of little links or chains.
• In botany, formed of parts united end to end, like the links of a chain.

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

• adjective Consisting of little links or chains.
• adjective (Zoöl.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective botany, zoology In the form of a chain of linked parts

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective having a chainlike form
• verb arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores