Associations to the word «Ammonites»

Pictures for the word «Ammonites»

Wiktionary

AMMONITE, noun. An explosive prepared from ammonium nitrate; amatol
AMMONITE, noun. Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subfamily Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal
AMMONITE, noun. Native or inhabitant of Ammon
AMMONITE, proper noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

AMMONITE, noun. One of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks.

Wise words

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Nathaniel Hawthorne