ammonite
See also: Ammonite
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder. Equivalent to Ammon + -ite.
Noun
editammonite (plural ammonites)
- (paleontology) Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
- 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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editcephalopod
Etymology 2
editFrom ammonium nitrate.
Noun
editammonite (uncountable)
- An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.
Related terms
editTranslations
editexplosive
Further reading
edit- “ammonite”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editammonite f (plural ammonites)
Further reading
edit- “ammonite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editammonite m (plural ammoniti)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editammonite
- inflection of ammonire:
Etymology 3
editParticiple
editammonite f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editParticiple
editammonite
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