adhamant

From the Latin adhāmāns (“catching”, stem: adhāmant-), from adhāmō, from ad- +‎ hāmus (“hook”) +‎ -ō.

adhamant (not comparable)

1. (biology, rare) Clinging, as if by hooks.
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   Because C was K
   

   "crow" is "work" backward. Back word,
   

   black word: be caws, claws.
   

   
   

   The adhamant clause,
   

   clinging to one's every word,
   

   vouches This one counts.

• adhamate
• adhamation

• “adhamant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC: “Clinging, as by hooks.”

adhāmant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhāmō