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Hamites
Hamites
English
Noun
Hamites
- 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)
- A group of heteromorph ammonites of the Turrilitaceae superfamily, alive during the Cretaceous.