subraˈmose, a. Bot. and Zool.
[ad. mod.L. subrāmōsus: see sub- 21 c.]
Slightly ramose; having few branches; having a slight tendency to branch.
| c 1789 Encycl. Brit. (1797) III. 444/2 Subramose, having only a few lateral branches. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 42 Subramose tubes, everywhere muricated with acute tubercles. 1856 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 75 Polypary papyraceous, subramose. |
| transf. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxviii. III. 12 In the Supplement to the first volume, he has distributed the Invertebrata in a double subramose series. |
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subˈramous a.| 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (1794) 382 Subramosus, subramous, having few lateral Branches. |