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Hamites

Hamites

English

Noun

Hamites

  1. plural of Hamite

Etymology 2

Latin hamites "with a hook", from hāmus "hook" plus -ites. Named by James Parkinson in Organic Remains of the Former World (1811), after the hook-like shape of the fossils.

Proper noun

Hamites (plural Hamitae)

  1. A group of heteromorph ammonites of the Turrilitaceae superfamily, alive during the Cretaceous.