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  • (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 a ram's horn; an ammonite.
  • noun anatomy, obsolete The hippocampus of the brain.

Etymologies

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Latin, horn of Ammon. See ammonite.

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