ammonite

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/

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• Hyphenation: Am‧mo‧nite

reconstructed model

fossil shell

From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder. 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.

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