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BELEMNITIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to belemnites
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
belemnite (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)
Derivation:
belemnite (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)
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