humilis
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of humilis
< New Latin, Latin: low, humble
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They used DNA to correctly identify both snails, Galba cubensis and Galba humilis, and the flatworm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
A recent paper on a newly discovered species of marmoset, Callithrix humilis, shows the monkey at age two months: studious eyes, a tight, alert face and an aureole of gray and white hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Georgics II, 146, Vergil repeats the phrase maxima taurus victima, but the phrase must have had its origin in the Catalepton, since here maxima balances humilis.
From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank
The C. humilis is known as the Himalayan crocus.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
It seems natural that if uim and umal were radical words, the latter would bear the some relation to uim, in every respect, which humilis does to humus, its supposed derivative.
From Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
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