am monie mia, ammon iæmia (amoniemia)

[NL., Ammonification [of the soil of Japan] can be performed only to a depth of 60 centimeters. Sci. Amer. Sup ., XXII. 8789. ammonio 178 amnion [ amnic us , amnis , a river, akin to Skt. ap , water.] Of or pertain from inroads of the sea, as it serves to bind down the sand amnia, n. Plural of amnion . by its long matted rhizomes. It is also manufactured into amnic1t (am'nik), a. mats, bags, and hats. door-mats and floor-brushes, and in the He brides into ropes, 2. In entom ., a genus of long-bodied fo orial ing to a river; fluvial; fluviatile. aculeate hymenopterous insects, commonly amnic a (am'nik), a. [ amnion + -ic.] Same ammonio-. Combining form of ammonium . ammonite (am'on-it), n. [ cornu Ammonis , horn of Ammon: so called from their resem- blance to a ram's horn: see Ammon and -ite2 .] One of the fo il shells of an extensive genus ( Ammonites ) of ex- tinct cephalopodous ammophilous Ammonites obtusus. Ammonites varians. Ammonites spinosus. mollusks (cuttlefishes), of the family Ammo nitid a, coiled in a plane spiral, and chambered within like the shell of the existing nautilus, to which the ammonites were allied. These shells have a nacre ous lining and a por cel a no us layer externally, and are smooth or rugose, the ridges straight, crooked, or undulated, and in some cases armed with project. ing spines or tubercles. The species already described number about 500, and range from the Lias to the Chalk formations, inclusive. They vary in size from mere specks to 3 or 4 feet in diameter. Also written hammonite. Sometimes called snakestone, ammon-stone, and formerly cornu Ammonis (Ammon's horn).