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Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. Gray.

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

Farthest in the rear; last.

Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

In a rimose manner.

State of being rimose.

Any branched marine bryozoan resembling moss.

A seismometer.

Farthest south.

Farthest toward the south; southernmost. [R.] Milton.

A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma.

The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore. Balfour.

Same as Sphygmograph.

Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.

Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.

Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.

Strumous.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.