hamous
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin hamus (“hook”), + -ous.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪməs
Adjective edit
hamous (comparative more hamous, superlative most hamous)
- (obsolete) Hamose.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section III:
- I am very apt to think, that the tenacity of bodies does not proceed from the hamous, or hooked particles, as the Epicureans and some modern Philosophers have imagin'd […].