Ishmael may have been the son or grandson of some ammonite princess.
The ammonite stem branched into a most luxuriant variety of forms.
They are already scratching the ambitious itch of Tobiah, the ammonite.
Tobiah, the ammonite, was related to several Judan families.
In the ornaments of the doorway we see the ammonite and medlar.
Jehoshaphat did not say to a Moabite or an ammonite, "I am as thou art."
The most important and stimulating event in the seas is the arrival of the ammonite.
And when he took it, to his father, he told him it was only a fossil shell—an ammonite.
What reason could she have to believe the ammonite was a shell?
The land north of the Arnon became Amorite; but the ammonite frontier was too well defended to be broken through.
"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.
