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Ammonitic

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Adjective

1. ammonitic

of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ammonitic

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noun
1. 
any extinct marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Ammonoidea, which were common in Mesozoic times and generally had a coiled partitioned shell. Their closest modern relative is the pearly nautilus
2. 
the shell of any of these animals, commonly occurring as a fossil
noun
1. 
an explosive consisting mainly of ammonium nitrate with smaller amounts of other substances, such as TNT
2. 
a nitrogenous fertilizer made from animal wastes

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Ammonitic

see synonyms of ammonitic
noun
any of the flat, usually coiled fossil shells of an extinct order (Ammonoidea) of cephalopod mollusks dominant in the Mesozoic era

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ammonitic

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n.
1. An extinct cephalopod mollusk of the order Ammonitida of the Permian to Cretaceous Periods, having a thick, usually coiled shell characterized by intricate suture patterns where the septa between individual chambers join the outer shell wall.
2. An ammonoid.

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