horn of ammon
11Classical albedo features on Mars — Mars, as seen through a small telescope, showing the patterns of colour known as albedo features. The classical albedo features of Mars are the light and dark features that can be seen on the planet Mars through an Earth based telescope. Before… …
12ammonite — am•mo•nite [[t]ˈæm əˌnaɪt[/t]] n. the coiled, chambered fossil shell of an ammonoid • Etymology: 1700–10; < NL Ammonites= ML (cornū) Ammōn(is) lit., horn of Ammon I+ ītes ite I am mo•nit′ic ˈnɪt ɪk adj. am•mon•i•toid əˈmɒn ɪˌtɔɪd adj …
13Cornu Ammonis — Cor nu Am*mo nis ([a^]m*m[=o] n[i^]s); pl. {Cornua Ammonis}. [L., horn of Ammon. See {Ammonite}.] (Paleon.) A fossil shell, curved like a ram s horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite. [1913 Webster] …
14Cornua Ammonis — Cornu Ammonis Cor nu Am*mo nis ([a^]m*m[=o] n[i^]s); pl. {Cornua Ammonis}. [L., horn of Ammon. See {Ammonite}.] (Paleon.) A fossil shell, curved like a ram s horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite. [1913 Webster] …
15ammonite — noun Etymology: New Latin ammonites, from Latin cornu Ammonis, literally, horn of Ammon Date: 1758 any of a subclass (Ammonoidea) of extinct cephalopods especially abundant in the Mesozoic age that had flat spiral shells with the interior divided …
16ammonite — (n.) cephalopod mollusk, 1758, from French (Breyn, 1732), better established [Century Dictionary] by French zoologist Jean Guillaume Bruguière (c.1750 1798) in 1789, from M.L. (cornu) Ammonis horn of Ammon, the Egyptian god of life and… …
17ammonite — [ amənʌɪt] noun Palaeontology an extinct marine cephalopod mollusc with a flat coiled spiral shell, found as fossils chiefly in Jurassic and Cretaceous deposits. Derivatives ammonoid noun Origin C18: from mod. L. ammonites, from med. L. cornu… …
18ammonite — /ˈæmənaɪt/ (say amuhnuyt) noun one of the coiled, chambered fossil shells of the extinct cephalopod molluscs, suborder Ammonoidea. {New Latin Ammōnītes, from Medieval Latin cornū Ammōnis horn of Ammon} …
19ammonite — [am′ə nīt΄] n. [ModL ammonites < L ( cornu) Ammonis, (horn) of Ammon < Jupiter AMMON1, whose statues were represented with ram s horns] any of the flat, usually coiled fossil shells of an extinct order (Ammonoidea) of cephalopod mollusks… …
20Am|mon|ite — am|mo|nite «AM uh nyt», noun. the fossil shell of a mollusk extinct in the Cretaceous period coiled in a flat spiral and up to 6 feet in diameter. ╂[< New Latin ammonites < Latin cornū Ammōnis horn of Ammon (represented as a ram)]… …
