artĭcŭlōsus

a, um, adj.

id.

I. 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, Quint. 4, 5, 24 (cf. just before: divisio in digitos diducta).
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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