Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The leading genus of ammonites, named in this form by Breyn in 1732, better established by Bruguière in 1789, giving name to the family Ammonitidæ.
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- noun Plural form of
ammonite .
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Examples
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The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner die with it.
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The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner die with it.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909
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The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner die with it.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner die with it.
Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner die with it.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The rocks where I lived didn't contain dinosaur bones because they were laid down in rather deep sea, but they contained called ammonites and belemnites, which were a sort of shellfish, and one was a shellfish, the other was a squid-like creature.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The rocks where I lived didn't contain dinosaur bones because they were laid down in rather deep sea, but they contained called ammonites and belemnites, which were a sort of shellfish, and one was a shellfish, the other was a squid-like creature.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Also beautiful jasper and fossils such as ammonites and belemnites.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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He observed that some fossils, "such as ammonites, gryphites, belemnites, and other shells, are either of unknown species or found only in the Indian and other distant seas" (Lyell's _Principles_).
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Outright fakes — including faux ammonites from Morocco and dinosaur eggs from Mongolia — abound, especially online.
Big Dig 2010
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