ammonite

Definitions

Examples

• The land north of the Arnon became Amorite; but the Ammonite frontier was too well defended to be broken through.

• Ammonite: Favier type; ammonium nitrate 75, dinitronaphthalene or other nitro-body, salt 20.

• Ramshorn, ramz′horn, n. a semicircular work of low profile in the ditch of a fortified place: an ammonite: a fossil cephalopod.

• It has been divided on the coast into four distinct zones, each characterised by its own particular species of ammonite.

• There was Mr. H. of the Linnean Society, whose waxed moustache curled round upon itself like an ammonite.