Definitions for Ammonite

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Ammonite am·mo·nite

Spelling: [am-uh-nahyt]

IPA: /ˈæm əˌnaɪt/

Ammonite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in Ammonite (aeimmnot).

Definitions for Ammonite

noun

1. the coiled, chambered fossil shell of an ammonoid.
2. a nitrogenous mixture consisting chiefly of dried animal fats, usually obtained from livestock carcasses, and used as a fertilizer.
3. an inhabitant of Ammon.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Ammonites.

Origin of Ammonite

1700-10; New Latin Ammonites Medieval Latin (cornū) Ammōn(is) (literally, horn of Ammon) + -ītes -ite¹; fossil so called from its

Examples for Ammonite

In the ornaments of the doorway we see the ammonite and medlar.

The most important and stimulating event in the seas is the arrival of the ammonite.

Jehoshaphat did not say to a Moabite or an ammonite, "I am as thou art."

Tobiah, the ammonite, was related to several Judan families.

The ammonite stem branched into a most luxuriant variety of forms.

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

Ishmael may have been the son or grandson of some ammonite princess.

And when he took it, to his father, he told him it was only a fossil shell—an ammonite.

What reason could she have to believe the ammonite was a shell?

They are already scratching the ambitious itch of Tobiah, the ammonite.