Meanings of ammonite in English

I was heading south in a crippled ammonite-sub, leaking and very slow.

Forerunners of the great ammonite family of cephalopod mollusks now appear.

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

An ammonite fossil found on the Jurassic Coast in Devon.

Given that these have never been found in association with ammonite fossils, they probably did not possess them.

Exceptional trace fossils like the 'zombie' ammonite give us an incite into tiny moments of the geological past.

There was Mr. H. of the Linnean Society, whose waxed moustache curled round upon itself like an ammonite.

Saul stared at that revolving ammonite.

The Brahmins have an especial veneration for a stone, which is, according to Sonnerat, a fossil ammonite in slate.

Enlarged ammonite on the right.

It was an ammonite nodosus, corroded at the ends but weighing quite six pounds; and in his enthusiasm Pécuchet exclaimed:

Outside her bedroom door a hallway sloped gently downward, round-roofed, curling about on itself like the inside of an ammonite.

He reached for the ammonite next to it, rubbing it between his fingers as he remembered Milo's delight at finding it.

He sat back, breathed in through his nostrils, out through his mouth, slow, calming, then coldly studied the graphic of a slowly turning ammonite shell.

Perhaps we do need an "ammonite-specific" reason for the final Cretaceous death, as Ward has shown (1992) that their latest Maastrichtian diversity remained respectable.

Nineteen great mines which contained a total of 1,000,000 pounds of ammonite upon their completion, had been dug into the vitals of these hills.