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Homiform vs Hamiform - What's the difference?

homiform | hamiform |

As adjectives the difference between homiform and hamiform

is that homiform is (obsolete|rare) in human form while hamiform is (conchology) at the (l).

homiform

English

Adjective

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  • (obsolete, rare) In human form.
    • (Cudworth)
    (webster)

    hamiform

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (conchology) at the (l).
  • * 1842 , , A Conchological Manual (3rd ed.), page 156
    • HAMIFORM .?(Hamus , a hook.)?Curved at the extremity.
  • * 1843 , , The Elements of Fossil Conchology , glossary, page 129
    • Hamiform , curved at the extremity.
  • * 1870 , American Journal of Conchology V, page 139
    • Distinguished by the elongated hamiform siphonal canal and the posterior canal co-ordinated with the “facies” of Aporrhais .
  • * 1904 , Proceedings of the XXVIII, page 590
    • Legs (?) light: anterior femora long, rather narrow; a short cylindrical hamiform process (a hook with apex sharply bent towards base of femur) projecting from lower side at about ? of its length: anterior tibiæ long, narrow on basal half, wide at apex, nor curved; intermediate long (longer than femora), strongly curved inwards; posterior long, slender: anterior tarsi stout, joints not dilatate, 5th longest, longer than three preceding together, basal joint much longer than 2nd, squamulose in middle of lower side near apex, 2nd and 3rd joints with two narrow rows of squamæ in middle of lower side; four posterior tarsi narrow, cylindrical, posterior much longer than intermediate; posterior coxæ contiguous.
  • Shaped like a (l).
  • * 1916 , Cornelis Rugier Willem Karel Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Malayan Ferns and Fern Allies (Landsdrukker?), page 177
    • Pinnae subentire or slightly repand, gradually short-acuminate; under surface provided with gland-like, hamiform hairs; main rachis provided with a callous gland at the place of insertion of the pinnae.

    References

    * “ Hamiform, a.'']” listed on page 49 of volume V (H–K), § i (H) of '''' [1st ed., 1901]
    ??Hamiform''' (), ''a.''?[f. L. ''h?mus'' hook: see -form.]?Hook-shaped.?[¶?''a''?'     1849 Maunder cited in Worc. (1860). * “ hamiform, a.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989