ringed (root: ring)

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Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective ringed has 3 senses

ringed(s = adj.all) annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped - shaped like a ring;
ringed(s = adj.all) - having colored rings around the body;
ringed(s = adj.all) - wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ringed, a.

Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings. [1913 Webster]
Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Ringed seal (Zoöl.), a North Pacific seal (Phoca fœtida) having ringlike spots on the body. -- Ringed snake (Zoöl.), a harmless European snake (Tropidonotus natrix) common in England. -- Ringed worm (Zoöl.), an annelid.

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THESAURUS

ringed

begirt, belted, cinctured, circled, circumscribed, circumscript, defined, definite, delimited, demarcated, determinate, determined, encinctured, encircled, fixed, girdled, girt, hedged about, set, specific, stated, surrounded, zoned