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  • English Word Ramenta Definition Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
  • English Word Ramentaceous Definition Covered with ramenta.
  • English Word Rameous Definition Ramal.
  • English Word Ramequin Definition A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.
  • English Word Rami Definition of Ramus
  • English Word Ramie Definition 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.
  • English Word Ramification Definition The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
  • English Word Ramification Definition A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
  • English Word Ramification Definition A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
  • English Word Ramification Definition The production of branchlike figures.
  • English Word Ramified Definition of Ramify
  • English Word Ramiflorous Definition Flowering on the branches.
  • English Word Ramiform Definition Having the form of a branch.
  • English Word Ramify Definition To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
  • English Word Ramify Definition To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
  • English Word Ramify Definition To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
  • English Word Ramifying Definition of Ramify
  • English Word Ramigerous Definition Bearing branches; branched.
  • English Word Ramiparous Definition Producing branches; ramigerous.
  • English Word Ramist Definition 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.
  • English Word Ramline Definition A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.
  • English Word Rammed Definition of Ram
  • English Word Rammel Definition Refuse matter.
  • English Word Rammer Definition One who, or that which, rams or drives.
  • English Word Rammer Definition An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity
  • English Word Rammer Definition A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
  • English Word Rammer Definition An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
  • English Word Ramming Definition of Ram
  • English Word Rammish Definition Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.
  • English Word Rammishness Definition The quality of being rammish.