Ramus Definition

rāməs
rami
noun
A branch or branchlike projecting part.
Webster's New World
A bony process extending like a branch from a larger bone, especially the ascending part of the lower jaw that makes a joint at the temple.
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Other Word Forms of Ramus

Noun

Singular:
ramus
Plural:
rami

Origin of Ramus

  • Latin rāmus branch wrād- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin rāmus (“branch").

    From Wiktionary

Ramus Sentence Examples

  • In front of it the narrow waist is formed by the soft sternal area of the praegenital somite; 2, the sternite of the 2 second opisthosomatic somite covering the posterior pair of lung-sacs; and 4, the spinning appendages (limbs) of the opisthosoma; a, inner, b, outer ramus of the appendage; I I, sternite of the eleventh --

  • The evidence of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) on this point is interesting, but he gives no authority for his singular statements.

  • He projected numerous other works, as is shown by a letter to Peter Ramus in 1568, which Adrian Romanus inserted in the preface to his Idea of Mathematics.

  • Ramus outdid his predecessors in the impetuosity of his revolt.

  • Meanwhile Ramus, as graduate of the university, had opened courses of lectures; but his audacities drew upon him the hostility of the conservative party in philosophy and theology.

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Words Starting With

RRARAM

Words Ending With

SUSMUS

Unscrambles

ramus

Words Starting With R and Ending With S

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