Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hamitocone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hami-to-cone
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.

Example Sentences

"In scaphitocones, the `pendulum effect' created by this separation was not as highly pronounced as in true ancylocones and hamitocones with open whorls throughout […]"
"Lytoceras and certain heteromorphs (eg, ancylocones, hamitocones) are the most appropriate for modeling because they exhibit the relevant features but are not overly complicated […]"
"2005, S. Reboulet, F. Giraud, O. Proux, "Ammonoid abundance variations related to changes in trophic conditions across the Oceanic Anoxic Event 1d (Latest Albian, SE France)", Palaios […] the shell would be easier in orthocones and torticones, which were oriented vertically in life with an aperture towards the bottom, than for scaphitocones, ancylocones, and hamitocones, […]"
"This pattern suggests that hamitocones were exposed to extensive post-mortem drift. […] Contrary to the lytoceratids and kossmaticeratids, hamitocones are characterized by a more […]"

Inflected Forms

hamitocones (plural)

Questions

What does hamitocone mean?: An organism or fossil with a hamitoconic shell, or the shell itself.

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