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hamous

hamous adjective: hamose.

Adjective

hamous (comparative more hamous, superlative most hamous)

  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

hamous meaning in Bengali

hamous in Bengali

আংটাসদৃশ

Forms of hamous

comparativemore hamous
superlativemost hamous

Origin of hamous

Latin hamus (“hook”), + -ous.

Words that rhyme with hamous

Questions about hamous

What does hamous mean?
Hamous means hamose.
What is hamous in Bengali?
Hamous in Bengali is আংটাসদৃশ. See Hamous meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hamous?
Hamous is an adjective.

Words near hamous in the dictionary

  1. hamons
  2. Hamont-Achel
  3. Hamorawon
  4. hamose
  5. hamotzi
  6. hamous
  7. Hamp
  8. Hampden
  9. Hampden County
  10. Hampden Hall
  11. Hampden Park

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hamous (page history and authors); hamous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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