ramuscule

(Late Lat. ramusculus, dim in. from ramus a branch.] Anat.: The branch of any ramus. ra-mus-cu-11, s. pl. [RAMUSCULE.] Bot.: The mycelium of some fungals. răn, pret. of v. [RUN, v.] răn (1), s. [Etym. doubtful.] 1. Rope - making : A reel of twenty yards. 2. Naut .: Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. *răn (2), s . [A. S. & Icel. rán.] Open robbery and violence; rapine. *răn (3), s . [Irish & Gael. rann = a division, a verse, a poem.] A saying. ( Seven Sages , 2,723.) ra-na, s . [Lat.] 1 Zool .: The typical genus of the family Ranide (q. v.), with sixty species, absent only from South America and Australia. Fingers quite free, none one oppesable; toes webbed; vomerine teeth in two series or groups; tongue large, oblong, free, and deeply notched behind; metatarsus with one or two blunt tubercules. Rana temp oraria is the Common English Frog, and R. esculent a the Edible Frog. 2. Palæont.: From the Miocene of Germany and Switzerland. rā-nal, a. [RANALES.] Bot .: Of, or belonging to, the Ranales (q. v.).