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Definition of Ringed

1. Adjective. Shaped like a ring.

2. Adjective. Having colored rings around the body.

3. Adjective. Wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married. "A ringed wife"

Definition of Ringed

1. a. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.

Definition of Ringed

1. Adjective. marked with rings, circles or loops ¹

2. Verb. (past of ring) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ringed

1. ring [v] - See also: ring

Medical Definition of Ringed

1. 1. Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings. 2. Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. "A ringed wife. " Ringed seal, an annelid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ringed

ringbill ringbills ringbird ringbirds ringbit ringbits ringbolt ringbolts ringbone ringbones

ringcraft ringdove ringdoves ringdown ringdowns ringed (current term) ringed dove ringed hair ringed plover ringed seal

ringed snake ringer ringers ringest ringette ringfence ringfenced ringfences ringfencing

Literary usage of Ringed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the Collection of the British Museum by George Busk (1852)
"Cells very long, truncate at the extremity, straight ; mouth terminal ; surface not ringed ; cell constricted immediately below the aperture. Hab. ..."

2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1882)
"Antennae and hind tarsi white-ringed. b. Antennae white-ringed, but not the hind tarsi ... Hind tarsi not white-ringed, t Apex of 1st segment white. ..."

3. The Iron-bearing Rocks of the Mesabi Range in Minnesota by Josiah Edward Spurr (1894)
"Spherical or ringed Impregnations. The formation of these, contrary to that of the ... The area of weakness may be a narrow strip following a ringed crack, ..."

4. The Iron-bearing Rocks of the Mesabi Range in Minnesota by Josiah Edward Spurr (1894)
"Spherical or ringed Impregnations. The formation of these, contrary to that of the ... The area of weakness may be a narrow strip following a ringed crack, ..."

5. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"the stiff outstanding bristles pale brownish ; tarsi black, ringed with white on both ends of joints, narrowly and obscurely so on front and middle legs, ..."

6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1881)
"... legs white, ringed with black at the extremities. The male differs from the female mainly in his smaller size and narrower abdomen. ..."

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