ammonite
See also: Ammonite
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæmənaɪt/
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
ammonite (plural ammonites)
- (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.
Derived terms
- ammonitic
- ammonitoid
- neoammonite
Translations
cephalopod
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Etymology 2
From ammonium nitrate.
Noun
ammonite (uncountable)
- An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.
Related terms
- amatol
- ammonitrate
Translations
explosive
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Further reading
- “ammonite”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
ammonite f (plural ammonites)
- (malacology, paleontology) ammonite
Further reading
- “ammonite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /am.moˈni.te/
- Rhymes: -ite
- Hyphenation: am‧mo‧nì‧te
Noun
ammonite m (plural ammoniti)
- ammonite (extinct cephalopod)
- ammonite(most rare mineral)
- Synonym of ammolite
Verb
ammonite
- inflection of ammonire:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
ammonite f pl
- feminine plural of ammonito
Anagrams
- a momenti, ammetino, menomati, mentiamo, mitomane
Latin
Participle
ammonite
- vocative masculine singular of ammonitus