Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Branching or branchlike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, resembling a branch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the form of a branch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the shape of a
branch .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin rāmus, branch; see ramus + –form.]
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Latin ramus ("branch") + -form
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Examples
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I explained that the cave Bat Boy actually lived in was a previously unmapped limestone ramiform cave I’d discovered near the western edge of the Monongahela National Forest or the MNF as we called it.
Going Mutant Dr. Barry Leed 2010
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