radicant 



Ramus 



crown; rad'icant, radi'cans (Lat., 

 striking root), rooting, usually ap- 

 plied to stems or leaves ; rad'i- 

 cated, having a root or roots 

 (Crozier) ; rad'icating, rooting ; 

 Radica'tion, Radica'tio, the root- 

 system of a plant, its disposition 

 and branching; radica'tus (Lat. ), 

 possessing roots, especially a tap- 

 root ; Rad'icel, Radicd'la, = RADI- 

 CULA ; Kadicella'tio (Lat.), = RADI- 

 CATION ; radicic'olous, -la (colo, 

 I inhabit), (1) when the flower is 

 seated immediately upon the crown 

 of the root ; (2) dwelling in the 

 root as a parasite ; radicif'erous 

 (fero, I bear), root-bearing, or 

 rooting, as prostrate stems ; radi- 

 ciflor'ous, -rus (flos, floris,a, flower), 

 flowering apparently from the 

 root ; radic'iform (forma, shape) ; 

 radici'nus (Lat.), of the nature or 

 appearance of a root ; Rad'icle, 

 Radi'cula, the hypocotyledonary 

 and primal internode, the rudimen- 

 tary root of the embryo ; Radi'cula 

 byssoi'dea, the mycelium of Fungi ; 

 rad'icose, radico'sus (Lat., having 

 many roots), having large or abun- 

 dant roots ; radic'ular, pertaining 

 to the radicle ; radiculiform'is 

 (forma, shape), shaped like a 

 radicle ; Radiculo'da, Radiculo'- 

 dium, the apex of the radicle in 

 grasses ; radic'ulose, radiculo'sus, 

 bearing rootlets. 



Ra'dius, pi. Ra'dii (Lat., a ray), (1) 

 the ray of Compositae, the outer- 

 most florets when distinct in form 

 from those composing the disk ; 

 (2) a partial umbel in Umbelli- 

 ferae ; (3) the structures known as 

 medullary rays ; ~ medulla'ris = 

 MEDULLARY RAY. 



Ra'dix, pi. Radi'ces (Lat., a root), the 

 root or descending axis, the de- 

 veloped radicle. 



Raffia, Raph'ia, or Rof'fia, the native 

 Malagasy names for the fibre-like 

 material obtained from the leaves 

 of Raphia peduncula, Beauv., and 

 R. vinifera, Beauv. 



Rafflnase (Fr. raffiner, to refine), 



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an enzyme which decomposes 

 Raffinose, a sugar occurring in 

 beet, and germinating cereals. 

 Rain-leaves, those which are adapted 

 to shed the rain from their sur- 

 faces, and generally acuminate, cf. 

 DRIP-TIP. 



ra'mal (ramus, a branch), belonging 

 to a branch; Ramas'trum J (-astrum, 

 a suffix, = likeness), a secondary 

 petiole or petiolules of compound 

 leaves ; ra'meal, ramea'tis, per- 

 taining to a branch ; ramear'ius, 

 restricted to aerial roots, which 

 arise from branches (Henslow). 

 Ramen'ta, pi. of Ramen'tum (Lat., 

 scrapings, shavings), thin chaffy 

 scales of the epidermis, as the 

 scales of many Ferns ; Ra'ments, = 

 RAMENTA ; ramenta'ceous, -ceus 

 ( + aceous), possessing ramenta, 

 clothed with them, 

 ra'meous, ra'meus (Lat.), belonging 



to a branch. 



Ramie' (Fr.), the fibre of Rhea, 

 Boehmeria tenacissima, Hook. & 

 Arn. 



ramiferous, -rus (ramus, a branch, 

 fero, I bear), bearing branches, ra- 

 mose; Ramifica'tion, -tio (facio, I 

 make), the scheme of branching or 

 separation into branches ; ramifi- 

 ca'tus (Lat.), branched ; ramiflor'- 

 ous, -rus, (flos, floris, a flower), 

 flowering on the branches ; ra'mi- 

 form, ramiform'is (forma, shape), 

 shaped like a branch ; ramip'arous 

 (pario, I bring forth), producing 

 branches, ramose ; ra'millary, term 

 employed by Massart for those buds 

 of climbers which develop into 

 short branches, fruit or leaves, cf. 

 SAKMENTARY ; ra'mose, ramo'sas, 

 ra'mous, branching, having many 

 branches ; ramosis'simus, very 

 much branched ; ram'ify, to 

 branch ; Ra'mulet, used by Grew 

 for the vascular strands in the 

 shell of a nut ; ra'mulose, ramulo'- 

 sus, having many branchlets ; 

 Ra'mulus (Lat.), a branchlet ; 

 Ramun'curus, a twig, the ultimate 

 division of a branch; Ra'mus (Lat. ),a 



