Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hamate or hamulate in form; unciform; uncinate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hook-shaped.
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- adjective conchology
Curved at theextremity . - adjective Shaped like a
hook .
Etymologies
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First attested in glossaries in 1842 and first used in 1870; either directly from the Latin hāmiformis (1651, 1806) or formed from the suffixation of its etymon, hāmus ("hook"), with the English -form.
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