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ramous, a. Now rare.|ˈreɪməs|
[ad. L. rāmōs-us: see ramose and cf. F. rameux (16th c.).]
1. Branching, ramose:
a. of plants, or plant-like forms. Also fig. of a pedigree.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 120 b, Genealogies discending, and Ramous. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. 84 Marigold..having a ramous leavy stalk. 1676J. Beaumont in Phil. Trans. XI. 732 A Mine, where well near all the Entrochi..grew tapering and ramous. 1793Sir J. E. Smith in Mem. (1832) I. 409 A very beautiful, large, ramous shrub.
b. Applied (after ancient physics) to the particles of viscous or rigid bodies.
1674Phil. Trans. IX. 105 The Rigidity of the Ramous parts of the Air proceeds from the Nitro-aerial corpuscles therein infixed. 1742London & Country Brewer i. (ed. 4) 38 Hops..whose Particles are active and rigid, by which the viscid ramous Parts of the Malt are much divided. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. ii. Comm. p. xx, The ramous and incurvated seeds..must inlock each other universally.
2. Belonging to, characteristic of, branches.
1813T. Busby Lucretius II. v. Comm. p. xxxii, They arose from the ramous friction of groves and woods. a1845Hood Elm Tree ii. xiv, In ramous wrestlings interlaced—A Forest Läocoon. |