单词 | ramulet |
释义 | ramuletn. Biology. Now rare. A small branch; = ramulus n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > branching part ramulet1671 ramuscle1677 ramusculus1825 ramuscule1828 ramulus1872 furcation1874 1671 N. Grew in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 3042 The purest sap, imbosom'd in the ramulets of the Seed branch. 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy ii. 105 Where these inolculations are not made, there we have no Leaves, but only a company of Ramulets, as in Fennel. 1829 Westm. Rev. July 111 The branches and ramulets of the trunk. 1834 R. Owen Descr. Catal. Compar. Anat. II. 76 The first series of vessels..give off lateral ramulets at right angles, and form a most delicate vascular network. 1876 C. L. Rominger Geol. Surv. Michigan: Lower Penins. 3 vi. 42 The highest beds..are light-colored limestones containing few fossils beyond some Crinoid stems and ramulets of Bryozoa. 1911 R. S. Bassler Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of Baltic Provinces 268 Zoarium loosely bushy, consisting of small slender ramulets. 1961 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. 90 287 Racemosely arranged in spiral manner on ultimate ramulet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1671 |
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