ramulus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ramulus. === Noun === ramulus (plural ramuli) (zoology) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive of rāmus. === Noun === rāmulus m (genitive rāmulī); second declension a little branch or bough, twig Synonyms: turiō, surculus a sprig ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== rāmulōsus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “ramulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ramulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ramulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.