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FAMILY BELEMNITIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods
Synonyms:
Belemnitidae; family Belemnitidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Belemnitidae" is a kind of...):
mollusk family (a family of mollusks)
Meronyms (members of "family Belemnitidae"):
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)
Holonyms ("family Belemnitidae" is a member of...):
Belemnoidea; order Belemnoidea (order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas)
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