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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Alternative form of ramose.

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

[From Latin rāmōsus, ramose; see ramose.]

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Examples

  • 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

  • Particles are Active and Rigid, by which the viscid ramous parts of the

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • 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

  • 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

  • I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval.

    Rational Review 2009

  • I thought only igno-ramous Westerners say they can't tell one from the other. "

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

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