Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or resembling branches.
- adjective Branching; ramose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Branched or branchy, or full of branches; having branches, or divisions of the character of branches; ramifying; ramose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ramose.
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- adjective Alternative form of
ramose .
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- adjective having branches
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The vegetation almost entirely consists of low stunted, very ramous shrubs, and these are generally thorny.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Particles are Active and Rigid, by which the viscid ramous parts of the
The London and Country Brewer Anonymous
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The remainder of the ramous rood had been used to mend the roads, to built pigsties and domestic offices; it had turned Protestant, in fact.
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905
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There are in every part of those living atoms, muscles, nerves, veins, arteries, blood; and in that blood ramous particles and humours; in these humours some drops that are themselves composed of several particles: nor can one ever stop in the discussion of this infinite composition of so infinite a whole.
The Existence of God Fran��ois de Salignac de la Mothe- F��nelon 1683
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I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval.
Rational Review 2009
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I thought only igno-ramous Westerners say they can't tell one from the other. "
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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