ammonite

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/

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• Hyphenation: Am‧mo‧nite

 ammonite on Wikipedia

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.

 ammonite on Wikipedia

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 , 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