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Growth ring
Answer for the clue "Growth ring ", 7 letters:
annulus
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Annulus (or anulus ) or annular may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annulus \An"nu*lus\, n.; pl. Annuli . [L.] A ring; a ringlike part or space. (Geom.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other. The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, medical, from misspelling of Latin anulus "little ring, finger ring," a diminutive of anus (see anus ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: ring , halo , anulus , doughnut , anchor ring ] (Fungi) remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the lower part of the stem [also: annuli (pl)]
Usage examples of annulus.
The annulus, the ring, between inner and outer hull is about fifteen feet on the top and bottom, about twenty-five feet on the sides.
The annulus was filled with tanks and air bottles and batteries and piping, all leaving more room inside the pressure hull.
Pendeen switched off the torch and straightened, looking down at the annulus of still-glowing metal.
And the Thing Below rose up from the white-hot annulus around its pit.
In an eye blink it became a broad annulus of scintillating light around a disk of blackness now bespecked with stars.
He was inclined to sit there for a few minutes with his buttocks cupped in the luxuriously polished wooden annulus of the shite-hole, and to savor this triumph, just as the late Samuel Pepys had taught him to do in the case of urination.
They grew legs, and around them sprang up an annulus of fire, which they survived, turning.
A distinct operculum is usually detached by the help of the annulus, and its removal may leave the mouth of the capsule widely open.
Its living-room was an immense annulus of glass from which, by merely moving along its circular length, any desired view could be had.
That part of the veil which breaks away from the cap, called the secondary veil, forms the annulus or ring.
The circular annulus on which the cut face of the donut half sits, as measured by Cst, represents the lunar surface where the shield intersects the ground.
The corresponding foundation for a communications satellite was essentially a thin steel annulus, a flat, sturdy donut that invariably looked too light for its job.