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Rimose vs Ramose - What's the difference?

rimose | ramose |

As adjectives the difference between rimose and ramose

is that rimose is having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices while ramose is having branches; branching.

rimose

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.
    • the rimose head of a mushroom
    a tree with rimose bark

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    ramose

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having branches; branching
  • * 1837 . J. O. Westwood. "Art. VIII. Description of a new Genus of British parasitic Hymenopterous Insects." Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology . Longmans, page 258
    • But it is chiefly in the interesting family Chalcídidæ that we find the greatest number of species having ramose antennæ.

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