BELEMNITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does belemnite mean? 

• BELEMNITE (noun)
  The noun BELEMNITE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BELEMNITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELEMNITE (noun)

Sense 1

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:

Nouns denoting animals

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)