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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Paleon.) A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.
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- noun paleontology, obsolete A
fossil shell , curved like aram 'shorn ; anammonite . - noun anatomy, obsolete The
hippocampus of thebrain .
Etymologies
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Latin, horn of Ammon. See ammonite.
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