a. Bot. and Zool. [ad. mod.L. subrāmōsus: see SUB- 20 c.] Slightly ramose; having few branches; having a slight tendency to branch.

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c. 1789.  Encycl. Brit. (1797), III. 444/2. Subramose, having only a few lateral branches.

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1822.  J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 42. Subramose tubes, everywhere muricated with acute tubercles.

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1856.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 75. Polypary papyraceous, subramose.

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  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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  So Subramous a.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot. (1794), 382. Subramosus, subramous, having few lateral Branches.

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