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hamulus
[ ham-yuh-luhs ]
noun
plural hamuli
- a small hook or hooklike process, especially at the end of a bone.
hamulus
/ ˈæʊə /
noun
- biology a hook or hooklike process at the end of some bones or between the fore and hind wings of a bee or similar insect
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Derived Forms
- ˈܱ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms
- u· ··ٱ [ham, -y, uh, -leyt], ··Dz [ham, -y, uh, -lohs], u·dzܲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hamulus1
C18: from Latin: a little hook, from 峾us hook
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Uncinā′tum, the unciform bone of the carpus; Uncī′nus, a hooklet, hamulus, one of the uncial teeth of the radula:—pl.
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Length of rostrum.—The shortest distance from the shallow notch that lies lateral to the hamulus of the lacrymal bone, to the tip of the nasal on the same side of the skull.
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Length of rostrum.—From the anterior border of the nasal to the maxilla at the lateral end of the hamulus of the lacrimal.
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