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unringed

unringed

6.8
Not marked with a band to identify animals like birds or plants like trees
  • adjective
translation icon : sin anillo
  • The bird's unringed leg showed that it had never been marked by conservationists.

Examples

  • Up she sat, placing the box in the palm of her left hand, opening it with her right, and here he did wait, at least for a few seconds, watching her eyes, hoping to catch sight of her heart there or in the movement of her thin, unringed fingers.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Clean, unringed, unmarked.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The jewelry store had a beautiful selection of unringed bracelets on display.

  • The artist admired the unringed pottery, noting its natural and untouched appearance.

Synonyms

unbanded
vsunringed
7.8

Not having a tag or ring on the leg

is about absence of a ring marking rather than a band

Antonyms

ringed
3.6

With colored bands around the body or surface

Surface Forms

unringed positive

Morphology

unringed = ringed (transparent) = un + ring + ed

Formed by simple negation of 'ringed' (un- + ringed), so the meaning 'not having a ring' is directly derived.

Etymology

Unringed is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and ring meaning a circular band or mark. So unringed describes something that is 'not' marked or wearing a ring, as when a bird or a tree has no identification ring.