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BELEMNITE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("belemnite" is a kind of...):
fossil (the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil)
Holonyms ("belemnite" is a member of...):
Belemnitidae; family Belemnitidae (family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods)
Derivation:
belemnitic (of or relating to belemnites)
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