rāmōsus, a, um, adj. [ramus], full of boughs, having many branches, branching, branchy.
I Lit.: arbor, Lucr. 5, 1096: ilex, Ov. M. 8, 237; cf.: domus Silvani, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 5: stipes, Ov. F. 3, 751. — Comp. : lappago, Plin. 26, 10, 65, § 102. — Sup. , Tert. Apol. 35.—
II Transf., branching : cornua cervi, Verg. E. 7, 30: corpora, Lucr. 2, 446; Claud. Cons. Stil. 3, 291: radices, Plin. 21, 15, 52, § 89.— Comp. : folium, Plin. 21, 10, 32, § 58. — Sup. : curalium, Plin. 32, 2, 11, § 22.—Poet., of the clouds, branchy , forked , Lucr. 6, 133.—Of the Lernaean hydra, from whose trunk young serpents grew out like branches, Ov. M. 9, 73: vitae nescius error diducit mentes ramosa in compita, into many devious ways , Pers. 5, 35.