ammonite
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How to pronounce ammonite in British English:
英 [ˈæmənaɪt]
How to pronounce ammonite in American English:
美 ['æmənaɪt]
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- Noun:
- one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
单词词源
- ammonite
- ammonite: [18] Like ammonia, the ammonite gets its name from a supposed connection with Amon, or Amen, the Egyptian god of life and reproduction. In art he is represented as having ram’s horns, and the resemblance of ammonites to such horns led to their being named in the Middle Ages cornu Ammōnis ‘horn of Amon’. In the 18th century the modern Latin term ammonītēs (anglicized as ammonite) was coined for them. Earlier, ammonites had been called snake stones in English, a term which survived dialectally well into the 19th century.
- ammonite (n.)
- "cephalopod mollusk," 1758, from French (Breyn, 1732), "better established" [Century Dictionary] by French zoologist Jean Guillaume Bruguière (c. 1750-1798) in 1789, from Medieval Latin (cornu) Ammonis "horn of Ammon," the Egyptian god of life and reproduction, who was depicted with ram's horns, which the fossils resemble. The resemblance also was noted in ancient times.
双语例句
- 1. 23:3 Did not apply to alliances with ammonite and moabite women .
- 2. No ammonite or moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the lord 's people .
- 3. Now king solomon loved many foreign women , along with the daughter of pharaoh : moabite , ammonite , edomite , sidonian , and hittite women .
- 4. Then nahash the ammonite came up , and encamped against jabeshgilead : and all the men of jabesh said unto nahash , make a covenant with us , and we will serve thee .
- 5. And when sanballat the horonite and tobiah the ammonite servant heard of this , it displeased them greatly that a man had come seeking the good of the children of israel .