BELEMNITE


Meaning of BELEMNITE in English

[bel.em.nite] n [NL belemnites, fr. Gk belemnon dart; akin to Gk ballein to throw--more at devil] (1646): any of a genus (Belemnites) of extinct cephalopods that had bullet-shaped internal shells and were esp. abundant in the Mesozoic era

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