ANNULATE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Annulate

... of the skull took its origin from the same habit of thought. As part of the wider idea of the metameric repetition of parts it had some scientific worth, but the theory was pushed too far, and the facts were twisted to suit it. Among annulate animals the theory of repetition found ample scope; Oken was able to compare with justice the jaws of crabs and insects with their other limbs, as Savigny did later in a more scientific way. Among Vertebrates the application of the theory of serial repetition ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell