Belemnite definition

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Belemnite \Be*lem"nite\, n. [Gr. ? dart, fr. ? dart, fr. ? to
     throw: cf. F. b['e]lemnite.] (Paleon.)
     A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower
     extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it
     is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small
     chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one


     side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is
     the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and
     belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in
     rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. --
     {Bel*em*nit"ic}, a.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  belemnite
       n : 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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