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AMMONITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ammonite mean?
• AMMONITE (noun)
The noun AMMONITE has 1 sense:
1. one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
Familiarity information: AMMONITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
ammonite; ammonoid
Hypernyms ("ammonite" is a kind of...):
fossil (the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil)
Derivation:
ammonitic (of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods)
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