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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2010-03-03 07:38 am

penannular

penannular (pen-AN-yuh-ler) - adj., having nearly the form of a ring.


Or nearly annular -- a circle with a break in it. Some solar eclipses are penannular, as are various kinds of broaches and arm-bands. From Latin roots: pen-, the combining form of pene-, almost, before a vowel + annular, from ānulus, ring.

---L.