ORDER BELEMNOIDEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Belemnoidea mean? 

• ORDER BELEMNOIDEA (noun)
  The noun ORDER BELEMNOIDEA has 1 sense:

1. order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas

  Familiarity information: ORDER BELEMNOIDEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER BELEMNOIDEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Belemnoidea; order Belemnoidea

Hypernyms ("order Belemnoidea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Belemnoidea"):

Belemnitidae; family Belemnitidae (family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods)

Holonyms ("order Belemnoidea" is a member of...):

Dibranchia; Dibranchiata; subclass Dibranchia; subclass Dibranchiata (comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish))