belemnite : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: belemnite	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
belemnite n 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Belemnite \Belem"nite\, n. [Gr. [?] dart, fr. [?] dart, fr. [?] to throw: cf. F. b[82]lemnite.] (Paleon.) 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. -- {Belem*nit"ic}, a.