belemnite meaning

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belemnite (noun): 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.

Definition of belemnite

  1. 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

    Type of: fossil

    Related forms: belemnitic

Scrabble score: 13 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with BE · words ending in TE · 9-letter words

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