Hamites

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin hāmitēs (“hooked”), from hāmus (“hook”) + -ites. Named by James Parkinson in Organic Remains of the Former World (1811), after the hook-like shape of the fossils.

Proper noun

Hamites m

A taxonomic genus within the family Hamitidae – a paraphyletic grouping of Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites.

References

Hamites (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hamites on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hamites on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hamites at Fossilworks

English

Noun

Hamites

plural of Hamite

Anagrams

atheism, has time, meatish, theaism

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