Crossword-Solution: AMMONITE
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| Ammonite | n. | A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis. |
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| Ancient resident of Jordan's present-day capital | 1 answer |
| Coiled fossil shell | 1 answer |
| fossilized spiral shell of an extinct sea creature | 1 answer |
| one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | 1 answer |
| Semite | 4 answers |
| AN ANCIENT NUMIDIAN TOWN IN NORTHWESTERN AFRICA ADJOINING PRESENT-DAY ANNABA IN NORTHEASTERN ALGERIA | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with AMMONITE (5)
Her forward elbow is propped upon one knee; and to keep her secrets close, for this Libyan woman is the closest of all the Sibyls, she rests her shut mouth upon one closed palm, as if holding the African mystery deep in the brooding brain that looks out through mournful, warning eyes, seen under the wide shade of the strange horned (ammonite) crest, that bears the mystery of the Tetragrammaton upon its upturned front.
See Ammonite.] (Med.) The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum.
Ammonite + Ïoid.] (Zo”l.) An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks.
Surely she might have known better? How? What reason could she have to believe the Ammonite was a shell? It is not the least like cockles, or whelks, or any shell she ever saw.
Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her watry Plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Quotes with AMMONITE (2)
The heartbeat is an irregular bell tolling; the footprints create ammonite patterns in the snow; they spiral in serpentine undulations, toward a complicated centre of mass, forming a beautifully inscribed hieroglyph, the earth acting as papyrus. It’s all signs and symbols; reading the emotions of another is an art, and tonight she lacks the imagination needed in order to be creative. Bewitching to behold, wings tucked neatly into the back of a loose summer jacket; his bare fe…
Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.' Creationists gleefully quote this sentence again and again. Needless to say, they never quot…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).