hamous

adj

hamous

adj

Etymology Latin hamus (“hook”), + -ous.

1

Obsolete Hamose.

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 […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section III:

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