ammonite

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.
    — There's more interest to my mind in a neolithic scraper than in a whole show-case-full of ammonites and belemnites.
  2. An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China. uncountable

词形变化

ammonites plural

词源

词源 1
From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder in reference to coiling ram horns used to symbolise the Egyptian god Amun. Equivalent to Ammon + -ite.
词源 2
From ammonium nitrate.
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