Word Meanings - AMMONITOIDEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

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• AMMONITE
  A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• MESOZOIC
  Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• FOSSILIZED
  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
• EXTENSIVELY
  To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• ABUNDANTLY
  In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
• ABUNDANT
  Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• ROCKSUCKER
  A lamprey.
• EXTENSIVENESS
  The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
• EXTENSIVE
  1. Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness. 2. Capable of being extended.
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• FOSSILIZE
  1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• SUPERABUNDANT
  Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal. -- Su`per*a*bun"dant*ly, adv.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.