Lewis Short
(adjective) : artĭcŭlōsus, a, um, id.
* Full of joints, or (of plants) full of knots (v. articulus, I.).
* Lit.: radix,Plin. 24, 16, 93, § 150.
* 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).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary