One of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks.

synoniem: ammonoid.

Roget 248: winding etc. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^†; sinuosity, sinuation^†; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^†; torsion; inosculation^†; reticulation etc. (crossing) 219; rivulation^†; roughness etc. 256.    coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop^†, scallop, escalop^†; kink; ammonite, snakestone^†.    serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.    knot.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: ammoniet