BELEMNITIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Belemnitidae mean? 

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

1. family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELEMNITIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Belemnitidae; family Belemnitidae

Hypernyms ("Belemnitidae" is a kind of...):

mollusk family (a family of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Belemnitidae" is a member of...):

Belemnoidea; order Belemnoidea (order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas)