humilis
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of humilis
< New Latin, Latin: low, humble
Example Sentences
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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 a bed of shells, a few feet below the 350 feet bed, I found a horn of the little Cervus humilis, which now inhabits Chiloe.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
The only spiny-rayed fishes that we have found with H. g. gulonella are Lepomis cyanellus and L. humilis, both of which are scarce.
From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Frank B. Cross
In habit like var. humilis; spikes tawny; perigynium like that of C. triceps, var. hirsuta; plant smooth, or very minutely pubescent under a strong lens.—Philipstown,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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