ramose

Questions about ramose

What does ramose mean?

ramose means "having branches".

How many syllables are in ramose?

ramose has 2 syllables and divides as ra-mose under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ramose?

Close synonyms include branched, branching, ramous, ramate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ramose a common word?

ramose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.