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BELEMNITIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does belemnitic mean? 

BELEMNITIC (adjective)
  The adjective BELEMNITIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to belemnitesplay

  Familiarity information: BELEMNITIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BELEMNITIC (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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