ammonoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.12 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extinct cephalopod of the subclass †Ammonoidea (including ammonites).
adj
Characteristic of an ammonite.
Example Sentences
- "Although the extinct externally shelled cephalopods ammonoids have an extensive fossil record, their soft tissues are very poorly known and, like extinct and living nautiloids, they are largely presumed to not have possessed an ink sac."
- "Literally tens of pence with an ammonoid fossil to highlight how bling bling the world of palaeontology has become"