artĭcŭlōsus, a, um, adj. [articulus], full of joints, or (of plants) full of knots (v. articulus, I.).
I Lit.: radix, Plin. 24, 16, 93, § 150.—
II Trop., of discourse (v. articulus, II. A.): vitanda concisa nimium et velut articulosa partitio, full of minute divisions and subdivisions , Quint. 4, 5, 24 (cf. just before: divisio in digitos diducta).