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Rami [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ramie [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

Ramification [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The process of branching or shooting branches from a stem.

2. A branch; a small division proceeding from a main stock or channel; as the ramifications of a family; the ramifications of an artery.

3. A division or subdivision; as the ramifications of a subject or scheme.

4. In botany, the manner in which a tree produces its branches or boughs.

5. The production of figures resembling branches.

Ramification [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.

3. A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.

4. The production of branchlike figures.

Ramified [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

divided into branches.

Ramified [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Ramiflorous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Flowering on the branches.

Ramiform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the form of a branch.

Ramify [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To shoot into branches, as the stem of a plant.

2. When the asparagus begins to ramify -

3. To be divided or subdivided; as a main subject or scheme.

Ramify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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

Ramify [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

2. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.

Ramify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Ramifying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

shooting into branches or divisions.

Ramifying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Ramigerous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bearing branches; branched.

Ramiparous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Producing branches; ramigerous.

Ramish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rank; strong scented.

Ramishness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rankness; a strong scent.

Ramist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.