"Snakestone" is a word in ENGLISH
An ammonite; -- so called from its form, which
resembles that of a coiled snake.
A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical …
Read the complete definitionContaining fossil ammonites.
Read the complete definitionAn extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
Read the complete definitionOne of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.
Read the complete definitionA shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.
Read the complete definitionA cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
Read the complete definitionA fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.
Read the complete definitionOne of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian …
Read the complete definitionA fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike …
Read the complete definitionAny species of ammonites of the genus Lituites. They are found in the Cretaceous formation.
Read the complete definitionThe fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch.
Read the complete definitionThe fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.
Read the complete definitionAn ammonite.
Read the complete definitionA minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon.
Read the complete definitionThe embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
Read the complete definitionAny fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites …
Read the complete definitionAn order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species …
Read the complete definitionAny fossil ammonite of the genus Turrilites. The shell forms an open spiral with the later whorls separate.
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