amonite
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis cornū (literally “horn of Ammon”), named by Pliny the Elder.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: a‧mo‧ni‧te
Noun edit
amonite f (plural amonites)
- (paleontology) ammonite (any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subfamily Ammonoidea)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
amonite m (plural amonites)
- (paleontology) ammonite (extinct cephalopod)