Ammonite Definition

ămə-nīt
ammonites
noun
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An extinct cephalopod mollusk of the order Ammonitida of the Permian to Cretaceous Periods, having a thick, usually coiled shell characterized by intricate suture patterns where the septa between individual chambers join the outer shell wall.
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Any of the flat, usually coiled fossil shells of an extinct order (Ammonoidea) of cephalopod mollusks dominant in the Mesozoic era.
Webster's New World
An ammonoid.
American Heritage
A member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Ammon, mentioned frequently in the Bible.
American Heritage
The Semitic language of the Ammonites.
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pronoun

Extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people who used to live in modern-day northwest Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. Extinct since 5th century BCE.

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ammonite
Plural:
ammonites

Origin of Ammonite

  • From Late Latin Ammōnītēs the Ammonites from Hebrew ‘ammônî Ammonite from ‘ammôn Ammon perhaps of Canaanite origin ʕmm in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • New Latin Ammōnītēs from Latin (cornū) Ammōnis (horn) of Amun, ammonite genitive of Ammōn Amun from Greek from Egyptian jmn

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French ammonite, from Latin ammonis (cornua) "(horns of) Ammon".

    From Wiktionary

Ammonite Sentence Examples

  • Among the Hebrews, Yahweh, some of whose features associate him with thunder, lightning and storm, and with the gifts of the earth, has now become the national god, like the Moabite Chemosh or the Ammonite Milcolm.

  • It is a fossil ammonite - an extinct mollusk that floated through the seas in its coiled shell.

  • He showed that from each individual shell of an ammonite the entire ancestral series may be reconstructed, and that, while the earlier shell-whorls retain the characters of the adults of preceding members of the series, a shell in its own adult stage adds a new character, which in turn becomes the pre-adult character of the types which will succeed it; finally, that this comparison between the revolutions of the life of an individual and the life of the entire order of ammonites is wonderfully harmonious and precise.

  • The Cretaceous beds have not yet been separated from the overlying Eocene, and the identification of the system rests on the discovery of a single Cenomanian ammonite.

  • If we might accept the various theories mentioned above, Balaam would appear in one source of J as an Edomite, in another as an Ammonite; in E as a native of the south of Judah or' possibly as an Aramaean; in the tradition followed by the Priestly Code probably as a Midianite.

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