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Webster 1913 Edition

(hā′mīt)

Noun.

[L.

hamus

hook.]

(Paleon.)

A fossil cephalopod of the genus

Hamites

, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

(hăm′īt)

Noun.

A descendant of Ham, Noah’s second son. See Gen. x. 6-20.

Noun.

The fossil remains of a curved shell.

Hamite ‎(plural Hamites)

A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples