Associations to the word «Belemnite»

Wiktionary

BELEMNITE, noun. (paleontology) An extinct order Belemnitida of Mesozoic marine cephalopod, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish.
BELEMNITE BATTLEFIELD, noun. (idiomatic) (informal) (paleontology) A fossil site with an unusually high concentration of belemnite rostra.
BELEMNITE BATTLEFIELDS, noun. Plural of belemnite battlefield

Dictionary definition

BELEMNITE, noun. 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.

Wise words

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