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Definition of Ammonites
1. ammonite [n] - See also: ammonite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ammonites
Literary usage of Ammonites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"On ammonites and ... the gizzards of ammonites, or a parasitic body attached
thereto, and at last the general view arrived ... remarked that ammonites and ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"13; the mention of Chemosh as god of the ammonites in Judges xi. ... The relations
between the Israelites and ammonites were generally hostile (Judges xi.; ..."
3. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"Geological Distribution of ammonites. The family of ammonites extends through
the entire series of the fossiliferous Formations, from the Transition strata ..."
4. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"THIS tribe of Gad possessed half the country of the ammonites, who together with
the Moabites held that part of Arabia Petraea called ..."
5. The Founders and Rulers of United Israel: From the Death of Moses to the by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"Re- And after a time the ammonites made war against Israel. (Mead- eiders of
Gilead went to bring Jephthah out of the land of onS And when the ammonites ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(1) From this resemblance of their volutes to those of a ram's horn. (2) The
various species of ammonites have long been collected and described, ..."
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