Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having many branches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
ramous . - In zoology:
- Branching; much-branched; ramifying frequently, as corals and other zoöphytes; ramous.
- Resembling a branch or branches; shooting out like a branch: as, the ramose spines of some shells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
branches ;branching
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having branches
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin rāmōsus, from rāmus, branch; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Latin rāmōsus.
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Examples
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-- A shrub, 7-9° high, with a straight, ramose trunk 3-4 'in diameter.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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-- A small plant with stem red, straight, quadrate, ramose.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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The sides are marked by numerous ramose furrows, though they are arranged without much order, and being crowded they give the surface a granulated appearance.
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