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n. (plural of ammonite English)
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According to the Book of Mormon, the Ammonites were a group of Lamanites who had been converted to the religion of the Nephites by the missionary efforts of Ammon and his brothers. They rejected the traditions of their fathers and embraced the traditions of the Nephites. To distinguish themselves from the Lamanites, they took upon themselves the name Anti-Nephi-Lehies. The name refers to the original leaders that lead their family out of Jerusalem and, guided by God, traveled to the Americas: Nephi and his father Lehi. In the usage here, "Anti" means "to imitate".
Prior to their conversion, the Ammonites were Lamanites, traditional enemies of the Nephites, and they had taken part in wars and battles against the Nephites. Following their conversion, they felt that their past sins were so great that they took a vow to never shed blood again and to avoid all forms of warfare, even in their own defense. To indicate the serious covenant they were making to this end, they buried all their weapons deep in the ground.
Forced from their homeland by their former Lamanite brethren, the Ammonites were re-located to the Nephite land of Jershon and the Nephites took up their defense in their behalf. The Ammonites, in return, provided provisions and material to help support the Nephite armies. When the Nephite and Lamanite nations entered into escalated warfare, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies volunteered to help the Nephites fight. Helaman, who was the leader of the church at that time, forbade them from doing so for fear that God would punish them for breaking their oath. Instead, they sent their sons who had not taken their oath to fight under the command of Helaman. This group was called the two thousand stripling warriors.
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Closely allied to the ammonites were the belemnites, smaller straight-shelled cephalopods more closely related to modern squid.
Mollusks hunted ammonites, boring through shells, poisoning prey animals, and firing deadly darts.
And as she descended she was battered by debris, helpless ammonites, clams, squid, even rocks torn from the floor.
It was littered with clams, crustaceans, squid, fish, ammonites of all sizes, all of them drowning in the air.
Three immense ammonites, probably several feet in diameter, hung suspended in the clear water.
The most spectacular of Cretaceous mollusks were the ammonites, chambered cephalopods related to the modern pearly nautilus and, more distantly, to squid and octopus.
The distinguishing characteristic of all ammonites was the complex suture pattern formed by the meeting of the growth chamber walls with the outside shell.
In addition, many ammonites were ornamented with regularly placed bumps and nodes.
Inoceramid clams and ammonites are especially common in some layers of the Pierre.
Especially useful are the ammonites, an extinct, shelled relative of modern octopus, squid, and the chambered nautilus.
At or near the end of the Cretaceous the ammonites, like the ancient dinosaurs, became extinct.
In the days when Saul had smitten the besieging Ammonites and freed the city of Jabesh-Gilead, bone-weary men had raised their voices in psalms to the glory of Yahweh and Saul.
Though a queen as well as a Siren before she had married Saul, she was used to this poor little desert kingdom without fixed boundaries, and many times she had fled with her household before the advance of Philistines, Ammonites, or Moabites and lived for weeks on lizards and manna.
Within two years he put him on the Ammonites, a big collection having been received from Europe at that time.
All the ammonites vanished, but their cousins the nautiloids, who lived similar lifestyles, swam on.