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Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.

The process of branching, or the development or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

Flowering on the branches.

Having the form of a branch.

To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

Bearing branches; branched.

Producing branches; ramigerous.

Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

Having many small branches, or ramuli.

A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.

A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

A small ramus, or branch.

ngue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.

rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.] Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. Fuller.

See Ranch. Spenser.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.

nstruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.

he colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.