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injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar. [Written also canula.]

Having the form of a tube; tubular. [Written also canular.]

Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle. [Written also canulated.]

See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.

Consisting of little links or chains.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

Minutely crenate.

A minute crenation.

To annul completely; to render void or of no effect. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul Isaiah xiv. 27.

One who disannuls.

Complete annulment.

Set with small spines or prickles.

Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions. R. Brown.

A term applied by Brücke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.

Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

A frænum.

y are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchi…

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.

In a granular form.