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hamitoconic

hamitoconic adjective: having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.

hamitoconic: having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as...
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Adjective

hamitoconic

  1. Having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.
    • Juveniles had virtually all possible types of coiling of their shells, ranging from regular planispiral and orthoconic to torticonic, hamitoconic and gyroconic.2014, AI Arkhipkin, “Getting hooked: the role of a U-shaped body chamber in the shell of adult heteromorph ammonites”, in Journal of Molluscan Studies
    • ... hamitoconic, orthoconic, scaphitoconic, torticonic and vermiconic.2015 July 22, Christian Klug, Dieter Korn, Kenneth De Baets, Isabelle Kruta, Royal H. Mapes, Ammonoid Paleobiology: From anatomy to ecology, Springer, →ISBN, page 4

Questions about hamitoconic

What does hamitoconic mean?
Hamitoconic means having a shell which has two or more straight shafts, like some heteromorph ammonites such as Polyptychoceras.
What part of speech is hamitoconic?
Hamitoconic is an adjective.

Words near hamitoconic in the dictionary

  1. Hamitism
  2. Hamito-
  3. Hamito-Semitic
  4. hamitocone
  5. hamitocones
  6. hamitoconic
  7. Hamitoid
  8. Hamitoids
  9. Hamler
  10. Hamlers
  11. hamlet

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