plural of hamamelid

Alternative form of hamamelid

plural of hamamelidid

(botany) Any member of a grouping Hamamelididae used in analyses of flowering plant phylogeny toward the end of the twentieth century. It included a number of dicot families that have since been shown to be parts of other groups.

A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in ironworking, lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

Alternative form of Djungarian hamster

Phodopus sungorus, a dwarf hamster with a typically thick, dark grey dorsal stripe and furry feet.

plural of hammer beam

(architecture) A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

(aviation, slang) A general aviation flight that involves flying a short distance, eating a meal, and flying back. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see $, 100, hamburger.