Definition of Hamose

1. Adjective. (botany) Having the end hooked or curved. ¹

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Definition of Hamose

1. hooked [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamose

hammiest
hammily
hamminess
hamminesses
hamming
hamming up
hammochrysos
hammock
hammock bandage
hammock ligament
hammocked
hammocking
hammocklike
hammocks
hammy
hamose (current term)
hamous
hamper
hampered
hamperer
hamperers
hampering
hampers
hampster
hampsters
hampton hump
hams
hams up
hamsa
hamsandwich

Literary usage of Hamose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Commentaries by Jonathan Stokes (1830)
"... hairs hamose, before flowering straight. Style filiform, pinkish and pink. Vasa deferentia 2, beginning just below the ends of the lobes of the stigma. ..."

2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1879)
"Halberd-shaped, or Halberd-headed: see hastate. Halved: when appearing as if one half of tho body Were cnt away. Hamate or hamose : hooked ; the end of a ..."

3. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"30. October 23. Septembers. Sound; when Capl. Byng, standing into hamose, was, about 12 at night, ..."

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