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belemnite

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Noun
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bel=em=nite

CIDE DICTIONARY

belemniten. [Gr. dart, fr. dart, fr. to throw: cf. F. bélemnite.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

belemnite, n. any extinct cephalopod of the order Belemnoidea, having a bullet-shaped internal shell often found in fossilized form.

Etymology
mod.L belemnites f. Gk belemnon dart + -ITE(1)

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