penannular

penannular (pen-AN-yuh-ler) - adj., in the shape of an almost complete ring.


A circle with a break in it, as in this penannular Celtic brooch:


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Coined in the 1850s, probably by archeologists, from pene-, almost (from Latin paene, almost) + annular, ring-shaped (from Latin ānulāris, ring-shaped, from ānulus, ring).

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