Hamites

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[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Noun

Hamites

  1. Plural form of Hamite.

[edit] Etymology 2

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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.

[edit] Proper noun

Hamites (plural Hamitae)

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