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ramous

ramous is the alternative form of ramose.

Meaning of ramose

Adjective

ramose (comparative more ramose, superlative most ramose)

  1. Having branches; branching
    • But it is chiefly in the interesting family Chalcídidæ that we find the greatest number of species having ramose antennæ.1837, J. O. Westwood, “Art. VIII. Description of a new Genus of British parasitic Hymenopterous Insects.”, in Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and...

Forms of ramous

comparativemore ramous
superlativemost ramous

Words formed from ramous

Questions about ramous

What is ramous the alternative form of?
Ramous is the alternative form of ramose.

Words near ramous in the dictionary

  1. ramosely
  2. ramosetron
  3. Ramoshi
  4. ramosity
  5. ramotuberculate
  6. ramous
  7. Ramoutar
  8. Ramoutars
  9. ramp
  10. ramp along
  11. ramp ceremonies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ramous (page history and authors); ramose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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