ammonite

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/

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• Hyphenation: am‧mo‧nite

From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder in reference to coiling ram horns used to symbolise the Egyptian god Amun. Equivalent to Ammon +‎ -ite.

ammonite (plural ammonites)

1. (paleontology) Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.

   Synonyms: ammonid, ammonoid

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 83:

     Ammonites floated through the world's shallow oceans for more than three hundred million years, and their fossilized shells turn up all around the world.

   • 2017 June 14, Mark Carnall, “The ancient mystery of St Hilda's 'snake stones': what do ammonites really look like?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.

   • 2017 October 31, Mark Carnall, “Searching for the Old Ones: Lovecraftian giant cephalopods and the fossil record”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     There are a few well known shelled giant cephalopods from the fossil record. Some of the largest recorded ammonites are in the genus Parapuzosia, fossils of which reach up to 2m in diameter.

From ammonium nitrate.

ammonite (uncountable)

1. An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.

• “ammonite”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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ammonite f (plural ammonites)

1. (malacology, paleontology) ammonite

• “ammonite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /am.moˈni.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: am‧mo‧nì‧te

ammonite m (plural ammoniti)

1. ammonite (extinct cephalopod)
2. ammonite(most rare mineral)
3. synonym of ammolite

ammonite

1. inflection of ammonire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

ammonite f pl

1. feminine plural of ammonito

• a momenti, ammetino, menomati, mentiamo, mitomane

ammonite

1. vocative masculine singular of ammonitus