ammonite

From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) "horn of Ammon", as it was called by Pliny the Elder (Ammon +‎ -ite).

ammonite (plural ammonites)

1. An explosive prepared from ammonium nitrate; amatol.
2. Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
   • 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.

• (extinct cephalopod): ammonid, ammonoid

ammonite f (plural ammonites)

1. ammonite

ammonite m (plural ammoniti)

1. ammonite (extinct cephalopod)
2. ammonite(most rare mineral)
3. Synonym of ammolite

ammonite

1. second-person plural present indicative of ammonire
2. second-person plural imperative of ammonire
3. feminine plural of ammonito

• menomati, mentiamo, mitomane

ammonite

1. vocative masculine singular of ammonitus