Definition of Ammonitic

1. Adjective. Of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods.

Partainyms: Ammonite
Derivative terms: Ammonite

Definition of Ammonitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ammonitic

ammonic
ammonical
ammonification
ammonifications
ammonified
ammonifies
ammonify
ammonifying
ammonio-
ammonioalunite
ammonioborite
ammoniojarosite
ammonioleucite
ammonite
ammonites
ammonitic (current term)
ammonitiferous
ammonitoidea
ammonium
ammonium acetate
ammonium alum
ammonium benzoate
ammonium bicarbonate
ammonium bromide
ammonium carbamate
ammonium carbonate
ammonium chloride
ammonium compounds
ammonium ferric sulfate
ammonium hydroxide

Literary usage of Ammonitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1883)
"... RENCE OF ammonitic REMAINS IN TERTIARY DEPOSITS. BY ANGELO HEILPRIN. The controversy which for a long time was maintained between Conrad and Gabb as to ..."

2. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames by John Phillips (1871)
"In this ammonitic chronology the first important step was taken, half a century since, by W. Smith, who composed a table of ammonites, in natural groups, ..."

3. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"... some genera have already become ammonitic in the digitation of their sutures, ... and some have taken on ammonitic ornamentation of the shell, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"It is probable, however, that this is an independent report which the redactor wished to bring into connection with the ammonitic war. ..."

5. The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals by Angelo Heilprin (1886)
"... and the primitive ammonitic forms of the Carboniferous rocks already referred to ... and the ammonitic, from the simplest to the most complex ..."

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